Evergreens are picturesque in many grounds - beautiful, too, when both soil and climate suit them. Otherwise, they had better be let alone. A foxy looking Evergreen, studded with bare spines, striking out like "quills upon the fretful porcupine," is anything but agreeable to the eye or taste of one who loves luxuriant vegetation in trees. The great difficulty which 1 have observed with Evergreens in park or lawn culture is, that they are stowed in promiscuously and thickly among the deciduous trees, and, after a few years of fine conical growth, they become crowded, the lower branches fade and die, and their entire beauty is lost in bare poles, with frizzled tufts of spiny leaves at the tops, a burlesque only upon the noble family of which they should be honored specimens. If you affect Evergreens at all, give them abundant breadth of space; then let them have their entire will of sweep, and range, and spray, and they become striking objects of admiration and beauty. My heart has been so often saddened by seeing the poor crippled things stuck into a crowded door-yard, or back passage, and then barbarously clipped into some grotesque imitation of nothing which a tree should be, that I have wished for the moment they were out of sight and existence.

I have serious doubts, after all our trials of exotic Evergreens, whether our own grand and stately pines, and hemlocks, and spruces, and cedars, are not the best, as well as the most effective, for all ordinary purposes, that we can cultivate.

You have so well handled "other matters," Mr. Editor, that I have not a word to say about them.