I cannot allow the excellent article of the Rev. Mr. Gridley, in the April number of the Horticulturist (entitled "A Word for Evergreens") to go down to posterity without adding another word on this subject.

Mr. Gridley lets, us off with only nine or ten varieties; and although he is willing to allow that "by dint of draining and blanketing" a few shivering adopted citizens may be carried through severed winters, yet the conclusion one comes to from his article is, that we had better let these foreigners alone, and fall back upon the few varieties he enumerates. I am willing to grant that many varieties which, a few years ago, we were in hopes to domesticate here, have disappointed us, and can only be grown in certain situations, and, even then, with but indifferent success.

The Deodar Cedar, Cedar of Lebanon, Cryptomeria Japonica, Araucaria Cun-ninghamia, and a few others, can only be grown in the shade of an Evergreen wood; they certainly do not thrive in an open, exposed lawn. But Mr. Gridley must not cut us off from a great many varieties which I pronounce unqualifiedly perfectly hardy in this latitude, viz: