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Large Tupelo. 



trifle heart-shaped at the base. This tree bears soli- 

 tary flowers, and fruit aboul an inch long with a flat- 

 tened and ridged Btone. Ir is 



found in water or (lecp Bwamps, 

 from Virginia and Illinois 

 southward. These three tu- 



pelos may easily be dis- 

 tinguished apart, 

 by reason of their 

 different fruit and 

 flowers ; \'<>r in- 

 stance, one can 

 not find JVi/ssa biflora with more than three flowers 

 on one stem, and in the greatest number of cases it 

 has only two. The single flower or fruit also unmis- 

 takably indicates J\ T . aquatica. 



„ . The persimmon, sometimes called 



Persimmon. L 



Diospyros date plum, is distinctively a Southern 



Virginicma. ^ree, although it may be found as far 

 north as Long Island or southern Connecticut ;* but 

 only in the South will the tree be seen fully devel- 

 oped ; here it grows, when unobstructed, 4<> or 50 

 feet high, with widely spreading branches; in the 

 forests it attains a height of 100 feet or more. The 

 dark-green leaf is from two to five inches long, rather 



* The specimen which 1 have sketched grows in Bucks County, 

 Pa., and is over 40 feet in height. 



