OF ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



tivation is at Bartram, which is ninety feet 

 high and seven feet eight inches in circum 

 ference. 



MACLURA, Nuttall. Nat. Ord. Moracese. 

 Dicecia, Tetrandria, Linn. Male flowers in a 

 very short, nearly sessile panicle of about 

 twelve flowers. Female flowers in close 

 heads on a short peduncle. 



M. AURANTIACA, Nuttall. Leaves ovate 

 acuminate, of a deep shining green. Male 

 plant with smaller leaves. Fruit as large as 

 a good-sized orange, golden yellow, verru- 

 cose. Osange orange. Native of Arkansas. 



As an ornamental tree, this is almost too 

 coarse to be beautiful ; yet its shining leaves, 

 and pretty fruit, will always insure it a place 

 in collections. The best Bartram specimen 

 (female) is about thirty feet high and four 

 feet in circumference. The male about fif 

 teen feet high. It is best propagated from 

 seeds obtained from the neighborhood of a 

 staminate plant, and sown in drills like peas 

 early in the spring; the following year 

 place in nursery-rows eighteen inches apart. 



