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made the subject of trees and plants his favorite study, 

 and whom we may all desire to emulate in our apprecia- 

 ciation of Nature's works. " The Ginkgo Tree," says the 



Fig. 65. SALISBURIA ADIANTIFOL1A, HALF THE NATURAL, SIZE. 



lamented Downing, " is so great a botanical curiosity, and 

 is so singularly beautiful when clad with its fern-like fo- 

 liage, that it is strikingly adapted to add ornament and 



