338 Remarks on the Culture of Indigenous Trees, ^'c. 



There is a plant now in bloom on the hill-sides at Forest 

 Hills, which merits cultivation from its beautiful spikes of 

 trumpet-shaped yellow flowers, — the Gerardia flava. There 

 is another variety of the same genus, — Gerardia pedicularia, — 

 which has numerous branches, equally elegant. As they are 

 perennial, they are appropriate for the borders of garden 

 avenues. 



As an ornamental shrub, or small tree, the June berry, — 

 Pyrus botrydpinin, of Willd., and Amelanchier canadensis, 

 of Torrey and Gray, — is among the earliest and most beau- 

 tiful of our forests, and should be civilized by cultivation. 



The Lilium canadmsis. or yellow lily, which is to be 

 found in wet meadow land all over New England, is one of 

 the most superb of that family of plants, and is much im- 

 proved by cultivation. I have cultivated them for several 

 years. Instead of one or two flowers, they have ten or a 

 dozen, and have attained the height of five feet and a half. 



The native rhododendrons and Kdlmia latifolia, I was glad 

 to find in your nursery last spring, and to learn that you had 

 numerous seedling plants, for they are our most magnificent 

 flowering shrubs, and I know not their superiors among all 

 the exotic shrubs which are most celebrated, for they are un- 

 surpassed in beauty when in bloom, and being so hardy as to 

 endure the most rigorous winters, as far north as Maine, they 

 can be introduced into every garden, and will be deemed the 

 most precious acquisitions which have been made from the 

 domain of the American Flora. 



To these shrubs may be added the azalea, the rhodora, and 

 the fine species of the cornus, which ascend to small trees, 

 and are all elegant. Allow me to recommend the appropria- 

 tion of a portion of your extensive and valuable nursery to 

 the culture of native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous flowering 

 plants, which can be cultivated in this State, and thus enable 

 your fellow citizens to obtain specimens of American trees 

 and plants without sending to England, Scotland, France, or 

 Holland for them. 



With assurances of gratitude for the eminent services you 

 have rendered your country, by the publication of the Maga- 

 ziPrt: OF Horticulture, the splendid work on Fruits, and the 



