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Pinus Pinaster , Cembra, pumilis, Lamberti- 
ana, Gerardiana, and maritima —All hardy. 
Pinus excelsa —Hardy. This is beginning to 
be so well known, that it is hardly necessary 
perhaps to say any thing in favor of its graceful¬ 
ness and beauty. 
Pinus ponderosa —Hardy. Grows with great 
rapidity, but resembles in foliage and habit the 
Pinaster. 
Pinus Goulteri, Devoniana, and macrocarpa — 
These three promise to be among the most ex¬ 
traordinary of Pines. The foliage is six to eight 
inches long, of a peculiar green, and there is an 
exotic look about them that arrests attention. 
They have been entirely uninjured this winter, 
though their first year out. 
Pinus Sabiniana —Hardy this winter, though 
previously it has suffered. A superb tree. 
Pinus Hartwegii, Montezuma, patula macro¬ 
carpa, Laricio Calabria —These four were 
planted so late last season, that I thought it 
more prudent to take them up. I am therefore 
unable to speak of their hardihood from my 
own experience. The former I have seen at 
Dropmore (Lady Granville’s) ten to twelve feet 
high. 
Juniperus, tamariscifolia, albina , Hibernica, 
communis pendula, recurm, Bed/ordiana, ex¬ 
celsa, fastigiata —All hardy. 
Torreya taxifolia —Hardy, and one of the 
most desirable of evergreenss. 
Gupressus macrocarpa —This seems to be very 
highly esteemed in England for its beauty, but 
it has not withstood our winter. 
Cupressus pendula —One of the most beauti¬ 
ful of small trees. Hardy. 
Gupressus horizontalis —Hardy. 
Cupressus funebris —There still seems to be 
a question whether the so-called Funebral Cy¬ 
press is not after all a Juniperus. My plants 
have for the first year or so resembled Junipers; 
but as they get up, the character changes very 
much to a Cypress. I am not sure of the hardi¬ 
hood of this tree. My best specimen was killed 
last winter, though an inferior one is uninjured, 
except the tops a little brown. 
Cedrus Libani —Perfectly hardy when well 
established. 
Cedrus Deodara —A little tender the first or 
second winter; afterwards apparently uninjured 
by the severest cold. 
Cryptomeria —My experience has been with 
this tree,, that it suffers more from oxer than un¬ 
der protection. My best specimen, some twelve 
feet high, was destroyed during a mild winter 
from too much and too close covering, though it 
had gone through a much severer one with the 
slightest protection. I am quite satisfied that 
in my latitude they should be on the north side, 
and in the shadow of houses or woods, to be en¬ 
tirely successful. 
Sabina communis and variegata —Both hardy. 
Araucaria imbricata —This stands perfectly 
well with me on the north side of a wood, if 
planted on a mound, so that the water runs 
from the roots on every side, and in about 
two-thirds of Rockaway (white) sand to one- 
third leaf-mold. 
Taxodium sempervirens —I have abandoned 
this as too rapid and succulent in its late growth 
for our climate. I think it would stand very 
well at Baltimore, and perhaps at Philadelphia. 
Taxodium horizontalis —Hardy. 
Gunninghamia glauca —Tender. 
Cunninghamia sinensis —Quite hardy, and, 
from its resemblance to the Araucaria , a very 
desirable plant where the latter will not stand. 
Taxus baccata (English Yew)—Hardy. 
Taxus elegantissima —Hardy and very strik¬ 
ing. 
Taxus pendula— Hardy and desirable. 
Taxus aurea —Hardy and curious. 
Taxus adpressa —Doubtful. 
Thuya filiformis, Ghinensis, plicata, Tartar¬ 
ian —All beautiful and hardy. 
Podocarpus lateralis —Killed. 
Libocedrus Chiliensis —Killed. 
Euonymus fmbriata —Killed. 
There are two acquisitions to our evergreen 
shrubs which I desire to mention here as well 
worthy the attention of amateurs. They are, 
Ilex latifolia and Ilex laurifolia. It was the 
impression of Mr. Downing that the laurifolia 
was the only Ilex that would generally stand 
our climate. At his suggestion I imported 
some, and they prove entirely hardy. I can 
say the same, or nearly so, of the latifolia, 
which, having a leaf like a Camellia, only larger, 
will prove the greatest possible acquisition. 
Among the Rhododendrons, Waterers’ hy¬ 
brid catawbiensis (100 plants of which, in forty 
odd varieties of bloom, he sells for £10,) are 
also great additions to our evergreen shrubs, 
being perfectly hardy, and blooming the year of 
importation. So also will be the eighteen 
varieties of Sikkim Rhododendrons, if they 
will stand our climate, an experiment I shall 
make another winter. 
The Andromeda floribunda does very well 
with me, and has quite a pretty white flower. 
The different Mahonias are too well known 
now to need further commendation. 
Among the things I have imported this spring, 
with a view of acclimating, are Garrya eliptica, 
Skimmia Japonica, Stauntonia latifolia, Ce¬ 
drus Deodara viridis, Cryptomeria viridis, 
Cryptomeria nana, Berberris Da/rwinii , Fitz- 
roya Patagonica, and Saxe Gothcea conspicua. 
My success with these, I may perhaps have the 
pleasure to communicate to you on some other 
occasion. 
REMEDY FOR THE SCALY APHIS. 
About two years ago I put into a thirty-two 
gallon cask, twenty pounds of sulphur, with 
about three shovels full of lime, filling up the 
cask with water, using fully half of the solution 
at the time, for syringing roses, &c., that were 
affected with the mildew; the remainder had 
stood for three months, and had become very 
strong, assuming a deep red color. I had at 
this time a plant of Fpiphilum speciosum that 
was so badly affected with the white scale, that 
I had taken it out of the house two or three 
months previous to its undergoing the operation 
I am about to speak of. I may here remark 
that this plant was in a worse condition than 
any living plant I had ever seen. I picked it 
up one day with a view of burning it, thinking 
it the best mode of getting rid of the live stock, 
but as I passed the cask containing the solution, 
I thought I would try the opposite element; so 
I stirred up the ingredients and dropped the 
plant in, letting it remain about three hours. 
During this time the liquid had become clear, 
and the plant entirely coated with the sediment. 
I took it out and put it on the stage in the 
green house, and when it required water, I wa¬ 
tered it with this solution in a clear state. In a 
very short time it began to show signs of re¬ 
turning life; the shriveled parts began to swell 
out—the coating it got by its immersion falling 
off in flakes. I now shifted it into a large pot, 
still continuing to water it with the sulphur wa¬ 
ter, until the fresh earth had become thoroughly 
impregnated with the sulphur. It now grew 
rapidly, and became as healthy a plant, and the 
green as beautiful as I ever saw. The plant is 
now full of flowers, and has never been affected 
with the scale since. Having several large cacti 
that were affected with the scale, and being too 
large to put in the cask, I gave them about five 
or six waterings with the same water, and they 
soon became perfectly clean. I then watered all 
the cacti I had with the same water, whether 
clean or no. This is now, as I stated before, 
two years since. I have not used any sulphur 
water on any of them since that period, and on 
examination I find they are all clean and healthy. 
Therefore I have come to this conclusion, that 
if the soil the cactus grows in, is imgregnated 
with sulphur, the plant never will become af¬ 
fected with scale, for this reason—the sulphur 
is taken up by the roots, and thoroughly dis¬ 
seminated through the plant, at the same time 
rendering the plants unwholesome to the scale.™ 
Robert Meston, in Horticulturist. 
THE VOICE OF THE GRASS. 
The] subjoined charming little poem we have 
lately seen in the English papers, without a signa¬ 
ture, and published as belonging to England. It 
was written by Miss Sarah Roberts, of Portsmouth, 
(N. H.,)and was originally printed in the Portsmouth 
Journal. Mary Howitt, in her “ Pictorial Calendar 
of the Seasons,” quotes it with high praise. It is 
worthy of it. 
Here I oome creeping, creeping everywhere; 
By the dusty road-side, 
On the sunny hill-side, 
Close by the noisy brook, 
In every shady nook, 
I come creeping, creeping everywhere. 
Here I come creeping, smiling everywhere; 
All round the open door, | 
Where sit the aged pool - . 
Here where the children play, 
In the bright and merry May, 
I come creeping, creeping everywhere. 
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere; 
In the noisy city street, 
My pleasant face you’ll meet, 
Cheering the sick at heart, 
Toiling his busy part, 
Silently creeping, creeping everywhere. 
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere; 
You cannot see me coming, 
Nor hear my low sweet humming ; 
For in the starry night, 
And the glad morning light, 
I come quietly creeping everywhere. 
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere; 
More welcome than the flowers, 
In summer’s pleasant hours; 
The gentle cow is glad, 
And the merry birds not sad 
To see me creeping, creeping eveiywhere. 
Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere; 
When you’re numbered with the dead, 
In your still and narrow bed, 
In the happy spring I’ll come, 
And deck your silent home, 
Creeping, silently creeping everywhere. 
Here I come creeping creeping everywhere; 
My humble song of praise 
Most gratefully I raise 
To Him at whose command 
I beautify the land, 
Creeping, silently creeping everywhere. 
Camphor vs. Pea Bugs. —A correspondent of 
the Horticulturist says: 
Four years ago last spring my seed peas were 
more than half destroyed by bugs, the largest 
and best varieties being most injured. The 
summer following I had boxes made, one for 
each variety, with a cover; and when the peas 
were gathered, I put into each box, with two 
quarts of peas, from six to eight bits of gum 
camphor, the size of a large pea, and mixed 
them together, and closed the box. The next 
spring there was not a pea injured. I have 
pursued the same course every year since, and 
have not h id one pea affected by bugs. 
Goon Pay. —One of the uninformed Post¬ 
masters out in Suckerdom, who found among 
the Post-office laws a clause to the effect t»at 
“ each Post-master may be allowed two mills 
for delivering from his office to a subscriber 
each newspaper not chargable with postage,” 
sent in his bill to the Department for delivering 
the only paper that was sent to his office, and 
told them that as his wife was out of the arti¬ 
cle, they might send him a couple of coffee mills. 
