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yellow flowers come out close to the branches in March or 

 April, and the whole tree is quite handsome in autumn, 

 from the size, and color of its fine oval scarlet berries. 

 These are as large as a small cherry, transparent, and hang 

 for a long time upon the tree. The leaves are much like 

 those of the common Dogwood. Although the blossoms 

 are produced when the plant is quite a bush, yet it must 

 attain some age before the fruit sets. Altogether, the 

 Cornelian cherry is one of the most desirable of small 

 trees.* 



THE SALISBURIA, OR GINKO TREE. 



Nat. Ord, Taxaceae. Lin. Syst. Monoecia, Polyandria. 



This fine exotic tree, which appears to be perfectly hardy 

 in this climate, is one of the most singular in its foliage that 

 has ever come under our observation. The leaves are 

 wedge-shaped, or somewhat triangular, attached to the 

 petioles at one of the angles, and pale yellowish green in 

 color ; the ribs or veins, instead of diverging from the 

 central mid-rib of the leaf, as is commonly the case in 

 dicotyledonous plants, are all parallel ; in short, they almost 

 exactly resemble (except in being three or four times as 

 large) those of the beautiful Maiden hair fern (Adiantum) 

 common in our woods : being thickened at the edges and 

 notched on the margin in a similar manner. The male 

 flowers are yellow, sessile catkins ; the female is seated in a 

 curious kind of cup, formed by the enlargement of the sum- 

 mit of the peduncle. The fruit is a drupe, about an inch 

 in length, containing a nut, which, according to Dr. Abel, 

 is almost always to be seen for sale in the markets of China 



* (Gnrnu8vari<?gata},ihe Variegated Dogwood, with leaves curiously blotched 

 with white, and (C. sangumea\ with its young shoots of a bright scarlet very 

 showy in Winter, are both very desirable varieties. H. W. S. 



