ORNAMENTAL TREES. 39 



in illustrating the sections into which the subject naturally 

 divides itself, and hardly any thing can be said regarding 

 the merits of particular species for the multitude of locally 

 varied situations which will continually require attention 

 and special study as the subject comes more into promi- 

 nence. 



It is only necessary, in conclusion, to call attention to the 

 principal points which it has been the effort of this paper to 

 present to your consideration : — 



I. That, for planting in New England, our own New-Eng- 

 land trees are, with few exceptions, the best. 



II. That, in addition to the New-England trees, we can 

 safely make use of the many beautiful and useful trees which 

 abound in the forests of the Middle States and the Alleghany 

 Mountains ; and that to these Eastern species may be joined 

 a few trees of unsurpassed beauty in the Rocky-Mountain 

 region. 



III. For exotic species with which to add variety and in- 

 terest to a plantation, we must look to Eastern Asia rather 

 than to Western Europe. 



APPENDIX. 



List of trees rarely cultivated in Massachusetts, and which should be more gen- 

 erally introduced. Such species as have not been thoroughly tested, but 

 which, judging from the region in which they naturally grow, may be ex- 

 pected to succeed here, are marked by an asterisk. 



NORTH AMERICAN. 



Appalachian, other than Natives of Massachusetts ^ etc. 



Magnolia acuminata. (Cucumber-tree.) 

 Magnolia cordata. 

 Magnolia Fraseri. 

 Magnolia macrophylla. 

 Magnolia Umbrella. (Umbrella-tree.) 

 ♦Tilia heterophylla. 

 ^sculus flava.. (Sweet Buckeye.) 

 .ffisculus glabra. (Ohio Buckeye.) 

 Cladrastis tinctoria. (Virgilia. Yellow- wood.) 

 Gymnocladus Canadensis. (Kentucky coffee-tree.) 

 Cercis Canadensis. (Red-bud. Judas-tree.) 

 Pirns coronaria. (American crab- apple.) 

 CratJBgus cordata. (Washington thorn.) 



