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and Japan, the native country of this tree. They are eaten 

 after having been roasted or boiled, and are considered 

 excellent. 



The Salisburia was introduced into this country by that 

 zealous amateur of horticulture and botany, the late Mr. 

 Hamilton, of Woodlands, near Philadelphia, who brought 

 it from England in 1784, where it had been received from 

 Japan about thirty years previous. There are several of 

 these now growing at Woodlands ; and the largest measures 

 sixty feet in height, and three feet four inches in circum- 

 ference. The next largest specimen which we have seen 

 is now standing on the north side of that fine public square, 

 the Boston Common. It originally grew in the grounds 

 of Gardiner Green, Esq., of Boston ; but though of fine size, 

 it was, about three years since, carefully removed to its 

 present site, which proves its capability for bearing trans- 

 planting. Its measurement is forty feet in elevation, and 

 three in circumference. There is also a very handsome 

 tree in the grounds of Messrs. Landreth, Philadelphia, about 

 thirty-five feet high and very thrifty. 



We have not learned that any of these trees have yet 

 borne their blossoms ; at any rate none but male blossoms 

 have yet been produced. Abroad, the Salisburia has fruited 

 in the South of France, and young trees have been reared 

 from the nuts. 



The bark is somewhat soft and leathery, and on the 

 trunk and branches assumes a singular tawny yellow or 

 greyish color. The tree grows pretty rapidly, and forms 

 an exceedingly neat, loose, conical, or tapering head. The 

 timber is very solid and heavy ; and the tree is said to grow 

 to enormous size in its native country. Bunge, who accom- 

 panied the mission from Russia to Pekin, states that he saw 



