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' more than seventy feet high ; the Locust , most 

 beautiful of trees and best of timber ; the Catal- 

 fiha, blossoms far more beautiful than those of 

 the horse-chesnut, broad and beautiful leaves 

 that do not scorch in the hottest sun ; all the 

 beautifully blowing Laurel tribe ; the Rose of 

 Charon (a's it is called here) and the Althea Fru- 

 t.cx ; the Azaha of all colours ; Roses of several 

 kinds. But, there is one shrub of the larger kind, 

 abundant here, that I never saw there, and that 

 is the thing which some call the Morning Star. 

 It has six leaves in its flower, which is in the form 

 of the flower of the single rose. The whole flow- 

 er when open, is about three times the circumfer- 

 ence of a dollar. Some of the trees bear blossoms 

 quite white, and others blossoms of a whitish 

 peach blossom colour. These blossoms come the 

 earliest in the spring. They are out jfa//, in Long 

 Island, in the first week in May y which is rather 

 earlier than the peach blossoms. In England 

 they would be out full, on an average of years, ni 

 the last week of February ', which is an anticipa- 

 tion of all their shrubs. The trees, which is a 

 great quality, thrive well under other trees, which 

 indeed, seems to be their nature. You see, from 

 a great distance, their bright and large blossoms, 

 unaccompanied by leaves, shining through the 

 boughs of the other trees ; and some of them reach 

 the height of forty feet. This, therefore, is a 

 very fine flowering tree; and yet I never saw 

 one of the kind in England. How beautiful a 

 grove might be made of this tree, the wild-cherry, 

 the Locust, the Catalpha, and the Althea-frutex ? 

 And here they are. all, only for the trouble of 



