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States, hut two are particularly worth notice, the White 

 Klin, and Slippery Kirn ( tf. pulra}. J&amp;gt;ut the former ofthe.se 

 is HO incomparably the superior, thai, it, should he selected 

 wherever it can he had. It attains a height of one hundred 

 feet., i,s very Jong-lived, grows more and more, beautiful with 

 age, its long branches droop over, forming graceful pendu 

 lous extremities; and no one who has seen the Boston Mall, 

 or the New Haven elms, or those scattered along the vil 

 lages of Connecticut, will think that Michaux exaggerated 

 in pronouncing this tree to he the mont maynifwent veyetar 

 ble production of tfi& Temperate Zone. It is unquestionably 

 the. monarch among shade-trees, as superior to the oak for 

 avenues and streets, as the oak is to it for parks and forests. 

 The great main-street of every village should he lined with 

 White; Elms, set at distances of fifty feet, and Locusts 

 between to supply an immediate shade, and to he removed 

 so soon as the slower-growing elrn has spread enough to 

 dispense with them. 



TIIK MAPLE. The following varieties are in our forests, 

 and are beautiful shade-trees for the borders of farms, door- 

 yards, public squares, avenues, streets, etc. The Sugar 

 Maple (Aver sawharinum). White Maple (A. eriovarpum,) 

 lied Maple (A. rubrum). This last variety shows beautiful 

 red flowers before its leaves put out in spring, and, like the 

 sugar-maple, brilliant scarlet leaves in autumn. The maple 

 is a beautiful tree of fine form, the leaves of the different 

 varieties are variously shaped arid all beautiful, it is free 

 from disease and noxious insects. 



Ue.Vides these, the ash, oak, tulip, beech and walnut, are 

 all worthy of being transferred to our streets. Shade (reel 

 for door-yards, and public squares, and pleasure-grounds, 

 require a, separate notice, as in some, material respects they 

 should be, differently treated. 



We warmly reeommend in lining streets, that each alter 

 nate; tree only be locust. 



It in better for (iff wt that each street, or at least con- 



