As I said in my notes of April, this is a timely article and shows that the editors and publishers of the Horticulturist intend and do keep up with the wants of the people and the labors of the season.

The Lawson Cypress is certainly one of our most beautiful evergreens of recent introduction, but I may be excused if I suggest to planters the policy of screening it from the south and west suns during winter, at least until the plants become well grown and established. While we concede to the Norway Spruce beauty and grandeur, let us, as you here hint, remember that however popular it may be, it nevertheless is not so well suited to small grounds as our American Spruces. I am glad to see you give due credit to our common but beautiful yet neglected Hemlock. Some call it a slow grower, but such assertions only show the caller one who knows nothing of its culture, Had we to seek trees of it from China or Japan, there is not an evergreen in the whole collection that would be as much prized; hut we shall learn after a time, in arboriculture, that the United States produces much of material unsurpassed if equaled by any other nation.