ITS SINGULARITY. 



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an exquisite odour, something like that of cinna- 

 mon. The lamas informed us that in summer, 

 towards the eighth moon, the tree produces large 

 rod flowers of an extremely beautiful character. 

 They assured us that there nowhere else existed 

 another such tree ; that many attempts have been 

 made in various Lamaseries of Tartary and Thibet 

 to propagate it by seeds and cuttings, but that all 

 these attempts have been fruitless." 



