I have had this out, unprotected, eight years; it passed through those trying winters, 1855-6, when the common road-side Cedars were destroyed, and White Pines and Hemlocks badly injured; and yet this was untouched.

Pinus Cembra, P. Laricio, P. Montecola, P. Pyrenaica, P. Pumilo, P. Lam-bertiana, P. Excelsa. - What can be more hardy than these Pines? I have never seen them injured by cold, though the excelsa is sometimes disabled from excessive growth.

Picea Frazerii, P. Nobilis, P. Nordmaniana, P. Pichta* - These four are every bit as hardy as anything Mr. Gridley mentions, and certainly nothing can be finer than any of them. P. nobilis is, in England, all that Mr. Buist says of it in his article, last spring, on Elvaston Castle. We only want time to make it as fine here.

P. Nordmaniana is a superb tree; in my judgment, by far the finest of the Silver Firs, so far.

Abies Clanbrasiliana, A. Elegans, A. Pumila, A. Compacta, A. Pygmea, A. Hud-sonii, A. Orientalis, A. Cephalonica, A. Pinsapo. - These nine, with me, never suffer, and I am sure the years 1855-6 were tests of their endurance as well as mine; for I lost many things which had done perfectly well for many previous years.

Cephadotaxus Fortunii, Taxus Japonica, Torreya Taxifolia, a dozen of the Junipers, nearly as many Arbor-Vitaes, it strikes me, are, beyond doubt, hardy. I never "drain or blanket" these, and yet they pass unscathed through our hardest winters. The Torreya gets its last buds a little whitened, but not more than the Red Cedar often does.

I don't know anything prettier or hardier than Thujeopsis Borealis - a variety of Thuja from Baffin's Bay - or the variegated Thuja or Thuja filiformis (the Weeping Thuja); and yet all these are perfectly hardy.

Mr. Gridley says Providence wisely limits the growth of the Rhododendron, Holly, and Laurel, of England, to countries where little snow falls. But let me ask him, where do (or where did, rather) the English get these plants? One Laurel from Portugal, the other (Laurus nobilis) from Italy, and the Rhododendron from America! I have had large masses of Rhododendrons many years, and they have never yet suffered from snow, though I have seen my beds covered two feet deep; it is the sun, not the snow, which is the enemy of the broad-leaf Evergreens.

And finally, do not "feed your plants" (your Evergreen plants) " well." On the contrary, if you have any doubt of the hardihood of a plant, starve it; let it make little growth, but well ripened wood, and it will withstand many more degrees of frost than the same tree with a luxuriant growth; beside which, the tree will be handsomer and better furnished. The fault of Pinus ponderosa is a too luxuriant growth of three or four feet; consequently, the tiers of branches, being separated to this extent, have a naked, illy-furnished look; while an upright growth of twelve to twenty inches, produces a thicker and more condensed tree, with less daylight and nakedness through it.

* Mr. Gridley is in error in calling this the Cracovian Juniper. It is the Siberian Silver Fir.

The reason why the Cryptomeria and Deodar Cedar are not more hardy, is because of their luxuriant and late growth, growing quite late into the autumn - their wood being consequently immature, and not ripened; when frost comes, they suffer as a natural result. Plant these trees in poor, thin soil, and they will stand much better; give them the additional advantage of a wood over them, and (with me) they stand perfectly. I have a Cryptomeria six or seven years planted which never even browns; but it is in a poor, slate soil, and has never been stimulated, and never grows over three or four inches in the season; consequently, the wood being well ripened, the tree is in a condition to resist a very low temperature.

In conclusion, I would add that the trees I enumerate above are, with me, as hardy as the Norway Spruce. There are many more I would advise the amateur to plant, that, in proper situations, do admirably well; but I do not wish to alarm Mr. Gridley too much with too many varieties. I think the tendency of his article would be, to make planters begin where their fathers stopped many years ago. I may err the other way, but I honestly believe that everything I have mentioned may be safely planted as far north as my latitude.