ARBORETUM NOTES. 39 
STYRACAGEZ.. 
HALESIA TETRAPTERA. 
Loudon, v. 2., 1190. 
One planted in the American Garden by my ca 
father, in 1826, is a flourishing plant, high enough 
to be called a tree, yet not thoroughly tree like in 
form, for it divides from the base into three stems, 
which rise in oblique directions, with a rather 
irregular, wavy, crooked growth, to the height of 
(as I guess), fifteen feet or more. It flowers 
plentifully every year, in May; the white 
pendulous flowers are very pretty; the fruit which 
is also plentifully produced, is full grown about 
Otober, and remains on the shrub, in a dry state, 
and of a dark brown color, till the following spring. 
I have not observed the Halesia to suffer from 
any of our winters. 
