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again approaches, when it begins to blossom as 

 before. It is a very quick growing plant, about 

 the size of a common plum-tree. If a branch 

 of it is set in the earth, it very soon takes root, 

 and bears blossoms, which very much resem- 

 ble orange-tree flowers, of a yellowish white, 

 and the bottom somewhat of a reddish yellow. 



REMARKABLY LARGE YEW-TREE. 



There was growing in the church-yard of 

 Darley, in Derbyshire, the beginning of De- 

 cember, 1818, a yew-tree, the circumference 

 of which was nearly thirty -six feet. This ex- 

 traordinary tree, according to tradition, was 

 planted about eight hundred years ago. 



INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF A TULIP-TREE. 



There is at present, (i. e. Dec. 2, 1818,) in 

 the garden of G. Dickson, Esq. of Cousland, in 

 Berwickshire, a tulip-tree in full blossom, which 

 is the second time it was ever known to be in 

 that state. The history of it is remarkable. It 

 stands in the situation of the garden of the Old 



