SOME NEOLECTED TREES AM) SllUUBS. 



favorite wherever kuowu. Efforts have been made to procure the seeds, and it may 

 become, ore long, more common. It should never be omitted where variety is con- 

 sulted. 



The Celtis crassifolia is in the same list of the rare and biautiful, and for the 

 Southern States the Styrax grandifolium* and hcvigatum, the Andromeda mariana, 

 the Myrica cerifera, Ilopea tinctoria, Ostrya Yirginica, the June berry, the Itea 

 Virginica, the Cyrilla racemitlora of Virginia, the A'iburuum prunifolium, and a vast 

 many which should long since have obtained a footing among us,areyet known to few. 

 An enumeration such as we have briefly attempted may serve to call attention to a 

 list which could be greatly extended. Merely naming them here will probably call 

 out from some of our correspondents facts, and opinions, and experiences, which 

 will be valuable. 



Of native fruits we have neglected to pi'ove the value of the wild Virginia plum, 

 which the Abbe Correa said, if cultivated, would equal that unknown article "the 

 nectar of the gods." The Custard Apple, Anona trilola, is rarely included in any 

 list for public or private cultivation, and yet it is one of the most remarkable of our 

 fruits — the only tropical looking tree product that we have; highly ornamental and 

 every way worthy of attention and care. 



The Persimmon, Dia^pyros Virginiana, too, is a beautiful tree, and the fruit 

 eaten at the happy moment is worthy more attention than it has yet received. The 

 fruit of the Persimmon varies much even in the wild state. Some are so exceedingly 

 astringent that it takes a very severe frost to render them palatable even to an opos- 

 sum; others are so accommodating as to afford a glout morccau long before winter 

 pears are ripe. 



The Persimmon has a fine green foliage, extremely grateful to the eye, and it should 

 be employed occasionally in ornamental planting. 



The Buffalo Berry, Shej^herdia argentea, among the smaller trees, may also be 

 mentioned as one of our too long-lost natives. No plant with which we are acquainted 

 has berries which so universally please, — rich in their deep scarlet color, — and almost 

 transparent in their pure waxy hue, — the most unsusceptible to the pleasures of an 

 arboriculturist, could not pass it without loitering to admire. Its scarcity is perhaps 

 as much owing to the difficulty of obtaining good seeds as from any other cause. 

 Bearing seperate sexual organs in different plants, the berries are worthless unless 

 grown in the vicinity of a male tree. It may, however, be readily increased from 

 layers. 



There are few small trees prettier than our Copal Sumac, Rlivs cojmUina, with its 

 peculiar winged leaves ; but though easily to be obtained in almost every state, it is 

 quite unknown in cultivation. Fortunately a foreign nurseryman, in his catalogue 

 got up for Americans, advertises it amongst his " Pfa7ites NouveUes," at "only" .75; 

 so having got a foreign reputation, we shall soon find our dollars flying in its direction 

 as a "new" introduction, and perhaps some society awarding a gold medal for its 

 exhibition for the first time ! 



might proceed with a list of many other neglected trees, and hereafter we may 



styrax grandifolium is perfecrly hardy liere, and most probably would be in any part of the States, 



