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A m:\v shade tkek. 



not succeed so well as it does further soutli. It is not so extensively propagated in 

 the nurseries as it should be, and is always scarce. It is an exceedinfrjy beautiful tno, 

 and should be planted whcrover it will i^mw well. AN'e sli;ill conliiiuo nuticos of otli'.r 

 trees of this character in future nundu-rs. 



A NEW SUADE TREE. 



CT THOMAS Mi:EIIAN, GABDENEK TO CALEB COrE, nilLADELPHIA. 



A CKLKUHATED Writer has lately issued a work to show who was, or who was not, 

 the writer of the world-famed ^^ Letters of Junius f I wish sonic one equally anxious 

 to display the acuteness of their logical powers would undertake to show us -whether 

 the ancient Jon was, or was not, a gardener or arboriculturist. In the absence of all 

 positive proof to the contrary, I venture to oft'er a presumptive one that he was not : 

 he never could have sustained his patience under the numerous tempting circum- 

 stances which crowd on tht gardener. Or, had he the heart of an arboriculturist, he 

 could not have stood unmoved when told " that his Elms were smitten with grubs 

 and borers ; his Lindens bore wreaths and festoons of insects, and were rotten at the 

 ground ; bis Ailantus had become the pests of his country ; and his Maples the 

 food of drop-worms and aphides." Job could not have been a gardener, and it is 

 well he was not, or he would have lost his character and the world its model ; and we 

 have gained him as a precedent in the inquiry, "how to stop this plague :" for trees 

 are essential to our existence. If one kind wont do, we must find a substitute. 



I am going to propose that we introduce a nno shade tree ! Start not, good reader, 



the " vast and lofty" Himalaya's have not been 

 ransacked to present you with another " curious 

 and rare" specimen of abstract beauty ; nor has 

 China or Japan been made to lay before you an- 

 other object of a nine days wonder. Our subject 

 has no claims of kindred with either the "Tree of 

 Heaven" or the " Deodar ;" but is one " to the 

 manor born," in which you all, either by birth or 

 adoption, claim an inheritance. But its country 

 must not depreciate its value. It is American ! 

 It is Liqnidamher styracijlua, Lin., better known 

 as the Sweet Gum. But tlie Sweet Gum I allude 

 to is not the " Sweet Gum" as we find it in dense- 

 ly crowded woods, with its stem as slender and 

 as straight as a stud-sail boom ; nor the " Sweet 

 Gum" as we frequently see it in damp, half 

 swampy places, with shoots as weak and delicate 

 as a card-basket osier; but the Sweet Gum some- 

 times seen growing by itself, unsurrounded by 



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