GARDEN BOTANY. 



1. Ulmus montana, WYCH or SCOTCH ELM. Resembles onr Slippery 

 Elm, but the buds not rusty-downy ; flowers short-pedicelled, and fruits more 

 leaf-like : occasionally planted. 



U. campestris, ENGLISH ELM. A large tree with the branches spread- 

 ing at right angles from the trunk ; leaves small and smoothish ; fruit obovate, 

 not eiliate, with a deep notch at the apex reaching nearly to the cell : occa- 

 sionally planted as a shade-tree. 



2. Mprus nigra, BLACK MULBERRY, from W. Asia, to be added to those 

 described in Man. p. 397. Leaves heart-shaped, with shallow lobes or none, 

 rough ; fruit oblong, red or black, edible. 



3. Bl'OUSSOnetia papyrifera, PAPER MULBERRY. A shade-tree, from 

 Japan, &c., spreading by suckers, with a tough bark ; leaves rough above, 

 downy beneath, serrate, some of them ovale or slightly heart-shaped, others 

 3-elcft or variously lobed : flowering in spring. 



4. Madura aurantiaca, OSAGE ORANGE, BOW-WOOD (Bois d'arc). A 

 low bushv tree, from Arkansas, c., multiplying rapidly by the root, used for 

 hedges; branches slender, armed with slender spines; leaves lance-ovate, 

 pointed, entire, smooth and shining above, roughish beneath ; fruit (consisting 

 of the ooalescent pistillate flowers) when ripe of the size, shape, and color of 

 an orange. Tough wood, used for bows. 



6. Ficus Carica, FIG-TREE. Cult, as a shrub or small tree, a house-plant 

 at the North, with stout branches full of acrid milky juice; leaves large, 3-5- 

 lobed, cordate at the base, rough above, pubescent beneath ; figs pear-shaped, 

 produced singly in the axils of the leaves, seemingly without any flower, the 

 flowers being minute and inside, lining the walls of the fig, which is a hollow 

 flower-stalk, becoming pulpy, sweet, and luscious. 



F. elastica, the INDIA-RUBBER-TREE of East Indies (not that of South 

 America, which belongs to the Spurge Family) ; a handsome tree, of house 

 culture, full of milky juice (India-rubber or caoutchouc); with large, coria- 

 ceous, entire, elliptical or oblong, verv smooth, bright green and shining leaves 

 having straight transverse veins ; figs small and sessile in the axils, not eatable, 

 seldom produced in cultivation. 



ORDER JUGLANDACE.33. WALNUT FAMILY. 

 Manual, p. 401. To the wild species already described, add 



1. Juglans regia, the true WALNUT, called ENGLISH WALNUT, because 

 we received it from the mother country, but it is a native of Asia; a fine tree 

 in the Middle States ; leaflets oval, aeutish, entire, smooth or nearly so ; fruit 

 round-oval, smoothish ; the nut with a nearly smooth surface, thin-shelled ; 

 seldom ripening well in this country, usually imported. 



ORDER CUPULIFE 11-33. OAK FAMILY. 



Manual, p. 403. Several species are beginning to be introduced in orna- 

 mental planting ; but only two are at all common, viz. : 



1. Quercus Robur, ENGLISH OAK. Belongs to the same section with 

 our White Oak ; but leaves smaller than in that species, not glaucous beneath, 

 sinuate-lobed but hardly pinnatifid ; acorn oblong, over an inch long, one 

 or a few in a cluster nearly sessile in the axils in var. SESSILIFLORA, raised 

 on a slender peduncle in var. PEDUNCULATA. 



