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Its exclusive natural attachment to deep alluvial soils may, 
perhaps, disqualify it for universal cultivation in our parks and 
pleasure-grounds, where, however, appropriate situations might 
generally be found for the display of its perfections. The rapidity 
of its growth would compensate for its inutility as timber; in 
which last respect it would be only on a par with some of the 
most cherished ornaments of our plantations, as the Horse-chestnut, 
Lime, and Plane. In low rich ground, by the side of artificial 
water, no tree would be more desirable than this. 
Immediately to the westward of the marsh, rises the rocky 
ridge overlooking the Hudson at West Hoboken, and the beauti- 
ful wooded heights, called the Bergen hills, from a pretty Dutch 
village of that name in their rear; a part of the country made 
classical by the genius of Washington Irving in his inimitable 
History of New York. On these hills, as also at their feet, grew, 
amidst a multitude of other plants, Cnicus pumilis, Teucrium Cana- 
dense, Hedeoma pulegioides (here called Penny-royal, which it 
much resembles in scent), Phryme leptostachya, Physalis pubes- 
cens ?, Sisyrinchium anceps or Bermudianum, (if they be really dif- 
ferent), Galium circezans, Monospermum Canadense, Scrophularia 
nodosa var. Marilandica, (hardly distinguishable even as a form), 
Hypericum punctatum and H. perforatum, Acalypha Virginica, 
Elymus hystriz, and E. villosus. In the shady recesses of the 
rocky woods Monotropa uniflora was not uncommon: its pure 
white stems topped by the large solitary nodding and bowl- 
shaped flowers, looking like so many tobacco pipes stuck in the 
ground, are obviously suggestive of its familiar appellation of Indian 
Pipe. The following British species are completely naturalized 
on the rocks, and have now quite the aspect of indigenous pro- 
ductions: Origanum vulgare (abundant), Verbascum Thapsus, — 5 
and F. Blattaria, Nepeta Cataria, Carduus lanceolatus, Solanum — 
Dulcamara, Leonurus Cardiaca, Linaria vulgaris, Pastinaca — 
sativa. 
The ligneous flora of this neighourhood included the following 
species, Platanus occidentalis, Red Cedar, Juniperus Virginiana 
(J. Sabine var.?), Castanea vesca var. Americana, (a very slight © 
