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height. The Himalaya contains within its recesses a noble and lofty tree 

 mis, M. excelsa, magnificent in its foliage and bulk, and 

 covered, when in bloom, with innumerable splendid flowers. Liquidamber 

 <mall, but interesting garden tree. Koelrenteria pinnata, 

 a native <>f China, comes under a similar class; but is entitled to much 

 (Mint of its very elegant pinnated leaves, and feathery 

 usely produced in warm autumns, and occasionally succeeded 

 by ripe seeds, from \\hich we have propagated it. The very exotic foliage 

 Muiria adiantifolia, the maidenhair tree, ought to ensure to it a place 

 on every lawn ; higher claims to distinction are possessed, in our opinion, 

 _i'ili: lutea, a small tree of peculiar beauty of form and foliage, in- 

 troduced about twenty years ago, from the mountains of Tenessee, by Mr. 

 Lyon, and still uncommon in the nurseries. It has not yet produced its 

 ,t papilionaceous flowers in this country, though we have heard that 

 !>een seen at Paris. We must not omit to mention an indi- 

 genous tree, which, delighting in chalky soils, should never be overlooked 

 by any person residing upon them, the white beam, (Pyrus aria.) The 

 whiteness of the under surface of its leaves and the wildness of its 

 habit are valuable properties, but indifferently shared by its near rela- 

 tion, Pyrus intermedia. The value of the common hawthorn in park 

 scenery, and the remarkable union which it exhibits of beauty of 

 flower with picturesque rudeness of form, need not be dwelt upon. Its 

 beautiful pink variety has been long known; another pink variety, of 

 colour more intense, and scarcely to be surpassed in the loveliness of its 

 tint, has lately made its appearance in the nurseries, under the denomi- 

 nation of the new scarlet Thorn. The meritof the double-flowering variety 

 is great, uniting to luxuriance of the individual flower, equal luxuriance in 

 their produce. Several other curious varieties of hawthorn have been 

 collected by the Horticultural Society of London, at Fulham. Crataegus 

 rrandiflora is a valuable small tree ; and many species of Pyrus, 



ilus, and Crataegus, should find room in an extensive arboretum. 



NY*.- have nearly concluded our remarks upon ornamental deciduous 



trees : before w r e proceed to the Conifers, so important in themselves, 



and so interesting from the additions lately made, and still making, to 



their number, we shall briefly advert to the mode of transplanting 



well described by Sir Henry Stewart^ of Allanton in his 



Planter's Guide, and adverted to in page 45 of this treatise. By caretul 



, ance of the precautions laid down by Sir Henry Stewart, trees of very 



!ely transferred to new spots ; but the practice is not 



new: it has been more or less followed in all ages. The Due de St. 



Simon describes what Louis XIV. accomplished in this way at Ver- 



:md Marly. Thirty-three years ago large and successful operations 



of the same nature were performed by the late Earl of Carnarvon, at his 



'd park at Highclere in Hampshire, principally upon limes, beech, 



and li 'nuts. 



\Vc have ou moved large trees without failure, and have 



. conclude, that notwithstanding the careful prepa- 

 of the tree, the preservation of its roots and rootlets, and the 

 careful adaptation of the soil, the success of the effort, and the immediate 

 growth of the tree, will still depend much upon its removal at the be- 

 trinnin:: of winter, and upon copious watering early in March, to be con- 

 ! at least every fortnight during tin- first summer after transplan- 

 tation, and into the second summer if the leaves shall appear to flag in 

 warm weather. 



We observed that the principal want experienced by the ornamental 



