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mentioned,* too tender to be entirely exposed all the 
year. 
The Ilex laurifolia (Laurel-leaved holly), strikes us, 
after the Mahonia, as the next most valuable ever- 
green shrub, even more so here than our native Kalmia, 
which is very apt to suffer from our hot August weather. 
We have grown this Ilex many years, both in a wood 
and in the most open situation, and apparently with 
equal success ; though we presume in certain seasons, 
with great alternations of heat and cold, those exposed 
would be apt to scorch. It has a leaf of a color and 
habit like the Camelia, and even finer ; and, if we regard 
foliage alone without flower (though even this is pretty), 
we should say we had no finer plant upon this place. It 
is an exceedingly great favorite of ours, and strange to 
say, we have never seen it elsewhere. 
The Kalmia latifolia (the Broad-leaved Kalmia), or 
American Sheep-laurel, as it is commonly called, is 
another very desirable shrub, as well as its varieties — 
K. angustifolia (Karrow-leaved Kalmia) ; K. myrtifolia 
(Myrtle-leaved) ; K. carnea (Red-flowering Kalmia), &c. 
It is somewhat difficult to move, and although the- 
mountains in our neighborhood abound with them, we 
have found it less expensive to import plants from 
England, raised from seed, at fifteen cents apiece, than 
to transplant the native habitats of the mountains, with 
their long straggling roots. Though it will grow in the 
sun, yet in the shade it becomes a different plant. 
The above, with the different Yews, Arbor vitsss, 
creeping and low-growing Junipers, &c., are the only 
dependable evergreen shrubs that we can at this 
* Atro sanguineum (Superb Deep maroon) ; Archimedes (Superb Rose de 
Chine); Angiola (Superb Cherry pink); Brayamum ; Ourrcanum (Superb 
Truss lilac rose) ; Chancellor ; Fastuosum (Magnificent Truss lilac); Gigan- 
teum ; Hannibal ; Henry Drummond ; Luxidum ; Rubrum Maculatum , 
Hero ; He Plus Ultra { Fine lilac) ; Poussin; Reedianum { Small Truss rose- 
pink, but fine) ; Sir Isaac Newton ; Vandyclc ; Victoria (Superb Deep lilac) ; 
Cleopatra; Invictum ; Proserpine ; Speciosum . 
