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occurence in the INIiddle Slates, is M. glauca, the flowers of 

 which are highly odoriferous. It succeeds best in damp soils, 

 and is found very plentifully in situations of this kind in New 

 Jersey. 



Ornamental trees from other countries should find a prom- 

 inent place in the plantations of our horticulturists. They 

 not only have an intrinsic value in themselves, but, to a refined 

 taste, they offer gratifications from the associations connected 

 with them. Thus the proprietor may view, in the walks over 

 his grounds, not only productions of his own country, but their 

 fellows from many other climes. We may witness flourish- 

 ing upon the same soil, many of the productions of southern 

 Europe and Asia ; individuals from the frigid regions of Si- 

 beria, and the almost unknown forests of Patagonia ; vege- 

 tables which perseverance has abstracted from the jealous Chi- 

 nese, and which the botanical traveller has discovered among 

 the haunts of the savage Indian. 



Among the foreign trees which are most generally culti- 

 vated for ornament in this country, we may mention the two 

 genera of Tilia and .^Esculus. The European lime or linden 

 tree, with its fine stately form and fragrant blossoms, is a most 

 pleasing object as an ornamental tree. The horse chestnut 

 (c/E. hippocrastanum) is perhaps better known than any foreign 

 tree in the country ; its compact growth, fine digitate leaves, 

 and above all, its superb, showy flowers, distributed in huge 

 buoquets over the foliage, have rendered it here, as in Europe, 

 an object of universal admiration. We would here beg leave 

 to direct the attention of platiters to the less known, but not 

 less interesting species of this tree, natives of our own soil. 

 JE. pavia, producing red, and .yE. flava, yellow flowers, form 

 very beautiful trees of moderate size. The other species are 

 rather large shrubs than trees, and are very pretty ornaments 

 to the garden. 



The brilliant appearance of the European mountain ash 

 (Sorbus ancuparia,) when in autumn it is densely clad with 

 its rich crimson fruit, is a circumstance sufficient to give it 

 strong claims to the care of the arboriculturist, independently 

 of the beauty of its foliage. But a tree, which, from this 

 latter property has long been a favorite with us, and which, 

 though it is common in Europe, we regret to say is yet but 

 lialf so well known as it should be, is the silver leaved abele, 

 P6|)ulus all)a. Its growth is very rapid, and it is, therefore, 

 well adapted for planting, where time is an object of consid- 

 eration. The flowers are insignificant, but its leaves are highly 

 interesting. The under side of each of these is rendered 

 perfectly white by a dense cottony pubescence, and in a gen- 

 tle breeze, from their being su])ported on slender petioles, they 



