inches at five feet from the ground. The bark is of a pale cinnamon color, and 

 from twelve to fifteen inches in thickness. The branchlets are round, somewhat 

 pendent, and resembling a Cypress or Juniper. The leaves are pale grass-green ; 

 those of the young trees are spreading, with a sharp acuminate point. The cones 

 are about two and a half inches long, and two inches across the thickest part. The 

 trunk of the tree in question was perfectly solid from the sap-wood to the centre, 

 and, judging by the number of eccentric rings, its age has been estimated at three 

 thousand years. The wood is light, soft, and of a reddish color, like Redwood (or 

 Taxodium Semjyerv irens) . ' ' 



Of this vegetable monster, a section was exhibited at Philadelphia about two years 

 since. Dr. Lindley says, " It must have been a little plant when Sampson was 

 slaying his Philistines, or Paris running away with Helen, or iENEAS carrying off 

 good Pater Anchises on his filial shoulders." Some seeds kindly sent to us, and 

 planted in the green-house, have unfortunately not vegetated ; but several individ- 

 uals have been more fortunate, and plants may now be bought in the United States,* 

 where they will no doubt become as common as Deodars. Dr. Lindley has deter- 

 mined that the tree belongs to a perfectly new genus, with foliage not very dissimilar 

 to that of the Juniper's, yet with- true cones, or stroholi, as large as those of the 

 Scotch Fir, but in structure veiy much resembling those of the Japan genus >S^cm- 

 dopitus of Siebold and Zuccari, Flora of Japan, ii. p. 1. t. 102, — which, however, 

 has leaves the longest (four or five inches long, and the broadest more than a line in 

 width,) of any genus in the northern hemisphere ; and so arranged in whorls that 

 each whorl is umbraculate, whence the generic name. 



THE MAPLE AND ITS ENEMY. 



BY A LADY. 



Few trees in our varied forest claim more deservedly our admiration than the 

 Maples, for few have so much merit, or repay our care more satisfactorily. Unex- 

 ceptionable as shade trees in the highway or grove, and beautiful in their gorgeous 

 hues in autumn, the American turns to them with pride and pleasure, and unhesi- 

 tatingly plants a Maple wherever a roof is to be sheltered. Hitherto the Maples 

 have been free from the ravages of insects ; but an enemy has now appeared tliat 

 will mar their beauty, unless checked by the careful hand of the tree lover, who 

 may, if warned in time, restrain its further progress, at least upon his own grounds, 

 and perhaps his good example may induce the public to take care of the shade trees 

 in our streets, and by a timely pruning, rid the trees of their enemy. 



The Dri/ocampa rubicnnda, heretofore known to science only in the winged state, 

 proves to be the parent of a green worm, that appeared in numbers on many of the 



* As this is the most pipantic tree of our country It has been supgested to call It Washirtfftnnia Oigantea. but we fear 

 tlie name of Wdlinyloiiiu having been ap|)ropriate(l by the discoverer, we shuli have to oUbmlt, ami be coutcnteil wiUi 

 our large share of the California gold found at Us foot. 



