140 THE FOREST TREE CULTURIST. 
will often remain in the ground two years before they ger- 
minate. Very common at the West, in low, wet soils; 
usually cultivated for ornament. There are also several 
other native species of smaller growth, also many foreign 
species and varieties, which can be found in any of the 
larger nurseries. 
HALESIA TETRAPTERA, (Silver-Bell Tree.) 
An exceedingly beautiful tree when in bloom; the flow- 
ers are of the purest white, bell-shape, with a long, slender 
stem; leaves oblong ovate, light green. Quite a tall, 
handsome shade tree can be made of it by trimming off 
the lower branches, but it usually forms a dense, conical 
shrub; wood is exceedingly hard and fine-grained ; seed- 
pods are two to four-winged, and one to one and a half 
inches in length; ripe in fall, when the horn-like covering 
becomes very hard, requiring a long time in the ground to 
make them germinate. They will usually start in spring 
if sowed in the fall, but sometimes remain in the ground 
until the second season; it is a native of the South, but is 
hardy in most of the Northern States. 
Morvs rusra. (Led Mulberry.) 
Leaves usually heart-shaped on large trees, but of vari- 
ous shapes on young plants; fruit long, from three quar- 
ters to one and a half inches, and three eighths to half an 
inch in diameter, resembling a blackberry; very sweet, 
but sometimes brisk and vinous; usually a small tree, 
but sometimes nearly forty feet high and one foot in 
diameter. : 
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