The great objection that we meet with in urging our friends to plant evergreens to adorn the wintry landscape, is, "That it is so hard to make evergreens live." As we were admiring, the other day, two beautiful specimens of the Black Spruce, said the lady of the house to us, "When they were given to me, I merely made a little hole just large enough to crowd the roots in, and stuck them down, and they have grown finely." We expressed, to her great surprise, our regrets that they lived at all. They ought to have died. Whenever a tree is just " stuck down" in that way, without any care or love - with such a perfect indifference as to whether it lives or dies - I am always glad, from the principle of the thing, to have it give up the ghost. But care in planting, is not the only thing to be considered, if you would have your evergreens live and thrive. It is of primary necessity, that the roots, while out of ground, should be kept moist - that they never for a momemt even, should become dried during the process of transplanting. To this end they must not be exposed to sun or wind. If this rule is observed, in ninety-nine eases out of a hundred, your trees will live. We have taken pains to test this in various ways.

A few summers ago, early in the season, we set out a long screen of Arbor-ritae, taken up and sent us from the woods of Maine. Our good Uncle, a skilful horticulturist, said that we should lose a very large per centage of them; our " minister" also au fait in such matters, prophecied their speedy death; our neighbors declared they couldn't live. We were careful to have them taken up with the sod on, in a damp stormy week. Six of them we set aside in a tub of water. Some three or four we left exposed to a drying wind, though the day was cloudy. We did not cut or trim them in the least, and out of two hundred and ten trees, we only lost four - the four we had left exposed. The six we had placed in the water were neglected for three weeks or more, till, finally, we carelessly planted them, with little thoughts of their surviving, though in a disadvantageous situation. They all lived. Again: in planting some fifty Norway Spruces, from lour and a half to six feet high, we were careful to have them brought us in a moist day. (The sun, however, came out, before we had finished setting them, and one of the best of the lot was somehow or other overlooked, and allowed to remain a number of hours with the roots exposed to the sun. It died; but all the rest have done well.

We might give other illustrations, but we proceed to the second point; which is, that the trees should be carefully planted. The best manure for evergreens is peat earth, or vegetable mould, mixed with ashes, and allowed to remain if possible, through one winter to be decomposed, and then mixed with part sand or sandy loam. We tread down a layer of sods in a trench - dug deep to withstand drouths - then throw in, with our first layer of peat earth compost, a quantity of stones, targe and small, to retain coolness and moisture, of which evergreens generally are so fond. We then mix the top loam with the compost, in finishing up the operation of planting, throwing in enough water with the earth to have it settle around the moist roots.

Thirdly. It is important that transplanted evergreens, to grow and flourish, should be kept wet and cool. To this end we must mulch; and, for evergreens we prefer fine hub Chips, saw dust, or spent tan, (though for fruit trees meadow hay is better,) as with a little ashes, they make a good manure for the next year. Always select small young trees, before those that are large, especially before those that are old and stunted in their growth; they thrive much better; and large trees in the process of rooting are likely to lose their foliage, and much of their beautiful spray and branches, and thus become unsightly, scraggy, and desolate looking objects enough. The be6t time for transplanting evergreens is in the May or early June storms; they may, however, be taken up and do well at any time of year, if these precautions are taken - although the very beet season is just as the buds are swelling to burst, and before they have started and grown so as to wilt in the hot sun.

Of the varieties of evergreens, their different characteristics, of the beauty and extent of the native kinds, we hope soon to speak further, as well as of the effect of their judicious grouping, in a future article. The evergreens, indeed, that are indigenous to our own soil - if there were no exquisitely feathery and graceful Deodars - no rich green, strange, coral-like Araucarias, so long and so difficult to acclimate, - no dark sombre Yews, - no solemn, grand "Cedar of Libanus," no fringed spruce of Norway, - would be all sufficient to cheer and warm and enliven the wintry scene. The thick verdue of the Yellow Spruce with its lively hue, seems to shed sunshine around in the gloomiest day; - and what border or shrubbery is more rich or charming, than a grand group of Kalmia Iatifolias with its glossy Camellia like leaf, and glorious wealth of noble and stately flowers. But our space forbids us to indulge in further description now .

James RICHARDSON,.Jr. Dedham, May, 1852.

Culture #1

AS soon as the colds of winter are passed, about the last of April, the seeds are planted in any earth and any exposure - that of the south is preferable. Or even, to hasten the plant, four or five grains may be put in each pot, in a bed under a frame, in the beginning of April, giving as much air as possible in moderate weather. When ready to plant out, remove them carefully, without breaking the soil.

The flowering begins in June, to end only with the frost. The seeds ripen in autumn. - Flore des Serres.

* See Frontispiece.