THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE- 



SEPTEMBER, 1849. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Beautiful Native Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous 

 Flowering Plants, groiving in Massachusetts, worthy of 

 general cultivaiio?i. By Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn, Haw- 

 thorn Cottage, Roxbury. 



Dear Sir, — Since my letter of July, it has occurred to me 

 that there are several other native trees, shrubs, and herba- 

 ceous flowering plants, which are as much entitled to the 

 special attention of the cultivators of ornamental grounds 

 and nurserymen, as those I named. 



The Tupelo multiflbra, or aquatica, which in New Eng- 

 land is called Pepperidge, Swamp Hornbeam, Wild Pear, 

 Snag Tree, and Horn Pine, is a very picturesque inhabitant 

 of our forests, as the branches are numerous, close together, 

 horizontal or slightly drooping, and the leaves which are of a 

 glossy green, until autumn, when they change to a deep scar- 

 let or crimson tint, and the berries are blue. They attain a 

 height of from thirty to forty and even fifty feet, and isolated, 

 or mingled with other trees, it is worthy of culture, from its 

 unique ramification, foliage, and form. Mr. Emerson de- 

 scribes one of these trees, which he examined in Cohasset, 

 that, at the surface, just above the roots, was eleven feet in 

 circumference, the height forty or fifty feet, and the average 

 breadth of the head sixty-three feet. 



As I shall designate only such trees and plants as are to be 

 found in this State, as most worthy of your notice, allow me 

 to name two of the former, which are limited in their range 

 and consequently not generally known. They are the Hack 



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