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cal purposes, where a fine, hard wood is requked. The roots 

 are almost as tough and stroug as a hempen rope, and it 

 requires a sharp sj^ade to cut them in transplanting. I am 

 reminded of this characteristic of the roots, from the fact that 

 about twenty-five years ago I sent to Kentucky, where this 

 tree is most abimdant, and secured two jjoimds of the seed, 

 from which I raised several thousand trees. After transplant- 

 ing them once or twice, and they had reached a higbt of 

 three or four feet, I offered them free to my neighbors, any one 

 who would accept and take up few or many ; but as very 

 few persons were acquainted with the trees, I only succeeded in 

 disti'ibuting a small number, and the remainder were dug up 

 and burued. One of this lot is now growing on my lawn, and it 

 is a noble specimen, and not excelled by any tree in my grounds. 

 When planted in a forest, it will grow tall and straight. It 

 deserves to be fai* better known and more extensively cultivated 

 than it has been. Native of Kentucky and Tennessee, but not 

 abimdant. 



C. amnrensis, Bentham and Hooker. — This is an Oriental spe- 

 cies, which has been introduced into this countrr-, and is a free 

 grower and quite hardy. 



CLiFTOXiA, Banks. — Budciuheat Tree. 



A small tree or shrub, the Mylocarpum, of Willdenow. Only 

 one species, the 



CliftonJa lignstriua -Buck wheat Tree. — Leaves evergreen, oblong, 

 smooth, and somewhat glaucous. Flowers white, fragrant, in 

 racemes two to f oiu: inches long, appearing in March and April, 

 A tree sometimes twenty feet high, along the borders of 

 streams in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Propagated from 

 seed, layers, or green cuttings, in a propagating house. 



CLUSIA. — Balsam Tree. 



A genus of tropical trees or shrubs with resinous yellow 

 juice and rough evergreen opposite leaves. Fruit of some of 

 the species edible, only one native of the United States. 



(iQsia flava, Linn. — Balsam Tree. — Leaves with short stalks 

 obovate, finely veined. Flowers polygamous, single, or in threes, 

 on short axiUary or terminal peduncles, yellow. Fruit pear- 

 shaped, containing about a dozen seeds, imbedded in a soft 

 pulp. A small tree about thirty feet high in Southern Florida, 

 and the West Indies. 



