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tivation is at Bartram, which, is ninety feet 

 high, and seven feet eight inches in circum- 

 ference. 



MACLURA, Nuttall. Nat Ord. Moracese. 

 Dioecia, Tetrandria, Linn. Male flowers in a 

 very short, nearly sessile panicle of about 

 twelve flowers. Female flowers in close 

 heads on a short peduncle. 



M. AURANTIACA, Nuttall. Leaves ovate 

 acuminate, of a deep shining green. Male 

 plant with smaller leaves. Fruit as large as 

 a good-sized orange, golden yellow, verru- 

 cose. Osange orange. Native of Arkansas. 



As an ornamental tree, this is almost too 

 coarse to be beautiful ; yet its shining leaves, 

 and pretty fruit, will always insure it a place 

 in collections. The best Bartram specimen 

 (female) is about thirty feet high and four 

 feet in circumference. The male about fif- 

 teen feet high. It is best propagated from 

 seeds obtained from the neighborhood of. a 

 staminate plant, and sown in drills like peas 

 early in the spring; the following year 

 place in nursery-rows eighteen inches apart. 

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