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looking hue so connected with sickliness. 

 Stepping between these it is suggestive of 

 innocence and lightness, which cannot fail to 

 attract admirers for it, in whatever situation 

 placed. It will make the prettiest object 

 when grown by itself; but it is a tree that 

 has no aversion to company. The largest 

 specimen at Bartram is ninety-four feet high, 

 and eight feet four inches in circumference. 



It thrives best in a light alluvial loam, 

 contiguous to moisture; but is soon injured 

 in wet situations. It will grow in the driest 

 soils; but, unless the atmosphere is very 

 humid, to little advantage. It is propagated 

 by seeds sown early in the spring in boxes 

 or beds of well-drained sandy loam, but 

 slightly covered with soil, and kept mode- 

 rately moist and shaded. When two years 

 old they may be removed to nursery rows 

 one foot apart in the row. "When they have 

 been thus raised, and once afterwards trans- 

 planted, they can be transplanted easily at 

 any future time. They seldom do well re- 

 moved from the woods. ; j 



2. A. DOUGLASSII, Lindley. Leaves flat, 

 comb-like in their arrangement, silvery be- 



