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ralized in this country, has become singularly 

 attached to the soil of its adoption the author of 

 Forest Scenery says that c no tree forms a more 

 pleasing shade.' He adds ; ' It is full-leafed, 

 and its leaf is large, smooth, of a fine texture, and 

 seldom injured by insects. Its lower branches, 

 shooting horizontally, soon take a direction to the 

 ground ; and the spray seems more sedulous than 

 that of any tree we have, by twisting about in 

 various forms, to fill up every little vacuity with 

 shade.' 



The Oriental Plane so much resembles its con- 

 gener just mentioned that it is scarcely necessary 

 to do more than note the points wherein its leaves 

 differ from those of its western relative. The 

 points of difference lie in the more acute and 

 attenuated form of the five lobes into which the 

 leaf of the Oriental Plane is cut. It is also more 

 distinctly five-lobed and the indentations between 

 the lobes are deeper, giving a very pronounced 

 palmate or hand-shaped form to it. The summer 

 leaf, too, of the Oriental Plane is somewhat less 

 golden in its hue than that of its congener. But 



