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climate now, which was not well known when Mr 
Downing Wrote. 
There are, perhaps, a few things, untried ten years 
ago, which have been tested the past three or four 
years, and not “ found w r anting such as some of the 
smaller English shrubs, like the Andromeda — especially 
Floribnnda — the Cotoneaster, of which Buxifolia, with 
us, proves the hardiest, though Microphylla and Margi- 
nata, both do well in the shade. And here let ns remark, 
once for all, that no evergreen shrubs do at all well in 
this country, in the sun. Every thing, from the yew 
down to the creeping periwinkle, succeeds well, only 
in shade. 
If it is impossible or inconvenient, to have these 
shrubs otherwise than exposed in open lawns, we should 
recommend only the employment of certain varieties, 
like the Rhododendrons, Catawbiensis, Kalmia latifolia, 
Mahonia aquifolium, and Ilex laurifolia. 
These four shrubs seem to stand any amount of heat 
and cold. Our thermometer, while w T e now write, indi- 
cates sixteen below Zero / and last summer they passed 
through a fiery ordeal of 95° to 100° : and this they 
have done for many years, with no other ill effect than 
that the very hot weather changes that fine, deep, 
dense color they universally have in the shade, into a 
yellowish green, but they survive and grow and flourish 
and bloom, though certainly less fine than when planted 
on the north of buildings or woods. 
Take it all in all, we consider the Mahonia (some- 
times called Berberris mahonia), the most valuable 
of all shrubs, deciduous or evergreen. 
If there is any exception to our remarks above, about 
the necessity of growing evergreen shrubs in the 
shade, we should make it in favor of this variety. 
It may be imported very cheap. Messrs. Waterer & 
Godfrey, Knaphill Nursery, Woking, near London, offer 
plants, one foot high, at eighty shillings sterling, per 
