224 Trees and Shruhs of Massachusetts. 



suburb is used, has, in several places, been made to give place to the stiff, 

 puddingstone wall ; and the change is called improvement. 



" If the suckers and lower branches are removed, and only the upper 

 branches allowed to grow, the barberry forms a very beautiful little tree, 

 and sometimes shoots to the height of ten feet. At limes we find such a 

 tree by the road-sides, surprising us by its gracefulness and the beauty of 

 of its bright yellow flowers in June, and of its rich scarlet berries and its 

 fading orange-scarlet leaves in autumn." — pp. 523, 524. 



We have thus presented to our readers a more than usually 

 long notice of this remarkable document, of which every page 

 seems replete with interest, both of things old and new, rare 

 and well known. Accompanying the text of five hundred 

 and thirty-four pages, are seventeen copperplate prints of 

 specimens of the following trees in outline, done with a beauty 

 and accuracy as creditable to the artist as is the subject mat- 

 ter to the author. These plates consist of figures of the White 

 Oak, QiuercAis alba, leaf and acorns, &c. ; the Overcup Oak, 

 d. macrocarpa, leaves and fruit ; the Rough or Post Oak, Q,. 

 stelldta, leaves and fruit ; the Swamp White Oak, Q,. bicolor, 

 &c. ; the Chestnut Oak, Q. castdnea ; the Rock Chestnut Oak, 

 Q,. montdna ; the Black Oak, Q,. tinctoria; the Scarlet Oak, 

 Q,. cocc'mea ; the Red Oak, Q,. rubra ; the Bear Oak, Q. ilici- 

 fblia ; the Shellbark Hickory, Cdrya alba ; the Mockernut 

 Hickory. C. tomentbsa ; the Pignut Hickory, C. poixhia ; the 

 Bitternut Hickory, C. amdra; the Nettle Tree, Celiis occiden- 

 idlis ;• the Tupelo Tree, Nyssa multijibra. 



We cheerfully recommend such a treatise as this to the 

 friends of Horticulture, feeling that the style and manner in 

 which the subject is treated will be peculiarly interesting — 

 especially to the floriculturist, who engages in a love for beau- 

 tiful native shrubs and forest flowers ; and to the arboricul- 

 turist will it prove a useful companion and guide, to furnish 

 him with important hints, or to serve as a pleasant source of 

 instruction. R. 



March 10, 1847. 



