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called Virgilia, a name that by priority belongs to an 

 African tree. 



THE PEPPERIDGE, OR SOUR GUM. NySSa. B. 



This is a picturesque tree, with fine, glossy foliage, 

 arranged in distinct, horizontal lines of light and shade, 

 something like the American Beech, and turning to 

 deep crimson in the autumn. The northern species is 

 N. multiflora. 



THE soPHORA. So2)hora. B-D. 



There are two Sophoras grown for ornament, namely, 

 the common Japan Sophora {S. Japonica), and the 

 Weeping Sophora (var. pendida), both of which bear a 

 resemblance in delicacy of leaf and flowers to the 

 Robinias, or Locusts. The former is a round-headed, 

 upright grower of much beauty, producing in summer 

 small, cream-colored flowers in racemes, B. The latter 

 is naturally a strong-growing, trailing shrub, but if 

 grafted on the common kind at seven or twelve feet high, 

 forms a small weeping tree of picturesque appearance. 

 The young branches of both are green, and singularly 

 contorted. They should be planted on well drained soil, 

 and only in sheltered places throughout the North. 



THE ALDER. AltlUS. B. 



A genus of rapid growing trees, especially valuable for 

 planting in moist places, although all do well on dry 

 land. While some possess but little beauty, others are 

 hardly excelled in attractiveness for lawn decoration. 

 Amonsr valuable of the Alders are : 



The European Alder {A. glutinosa), with showy, 

 roundish foliage, B. Of this there are three cut-leaved 

 varieties known respectively as the Imperial Cut-leaved 

 Alder (var. laciniata imperialis), a stately tree of vigor- 

 ous and graceful growth, and large deeply-cut leaves. 



