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moment recommend for general planting in exposed 
sunny situations. 
For amateurs, who have the advantage of a wood, or 
a long line of high fence, upon the northern side of 
which they may have a shaded border, there are several 
other things we would suggest : such as the hardy 
Heaths, the hardy Belgio azalias , costing in England 
£10 per hundred (fifty cents apiece), for named vari- 
eties, in twenty different colors : the different Andro- 
inedas, the Hhodora Canadensis, the various Gaulthe- 
rias, the Ledums, the pretty family of Menziesias, the 
Epigsea, the different varieties of Box, the green and 
the variegated Euonymous. 
The Ilex Scottica is represented to us as quite as fine 
and as hardy as Ilex laurifolia, though we have not yet 
tried it. 
In those parts of the country, too cold to grow the 
English ivy, we would suggest large circular beds, in 
appropriate parts of the pleasure-grounds, to be planted 
in ivy ; and which, while permitted to fill the bed, should 
be kept within it by clipping. Beds in this way filled 
(the ground being well covered in) with the different 
varieties of the Gold-striped, the Silver-striped, and the 
Dark Giant, are very effective and striking, and when 
not protected by snow in winter, can readily be so by a 
few cedar or hemlock boughs thrown over them. 
Note. — As this work is passing through the press, we have received a twig, per- 
fectly green and fresh, of an Abies Douglasii, from a tree at Cazenovia, New York?, 
planted in 1853 , when only eighteen inches high, and that has now reached the alti- 
tude of eight feet, making annual shoots of fifteen to twenty inches, withstanding a 
temperature in 1855 - 6 - 7 , of 25 ° to 28 ® below zero, without the slightest protection 
or the least injury; while the A. Menziesii is immediately destroyed, and the Silver 
fir raised with difficulty, and where neither the Cedar of Lebanon, the Pinus 
excelsa, or Picea pinsapo, succeed at all. 
The tree from which the specimen was sent us, is growing in a retentive loam, 
rarely suffering from drought, hut planted on an open lawn, entirely exposed on 
every side. 
This seems conclusive evidence that cold at least, does not injure the Douglas nr, 
and that it may he classed “ Perfectly hardy” in a climate usually considered the 
most severe, or one of the most severe, in the State of New York. 
