OBNAMENTAL TREES, ETC* 385 



S. S. *N Great Flowering Magnolia. M. grandiftora. A tall, 

 iuperb evergreen tree, rising in a congenial climate to the height of 

 sixty or eighty feet; the leaves are oblong, of a shining green. The 

 flowers are very large, of a fine, fragrant odor. It does not bear a 

 northern climate. 



54 JAsH-LEAtED MAPLE* 



A new and beautiful tree of the first class. The leaves in five 

 leaflets, serrate, greenish yellow ; the young wood is green. 



55* ^MOUNTAIN SNOW DROP. Chionanthus montana. 



The tree rises from ten to twelve feet in height ; the leaves are 

 oblong, broad, laurel-shaped, of a blackish green ; the flowers are 

 in clusters, very singular and white, like flakes of snow. Last of 

 May and June. 



56. ^CHINESE PAPER MULBERRY. Brousonetia papyrifera. 



A large tree, with a round head ; the leaves are large, rough ; some 

 are cordate, some entire, some five-lobed. The fertile and barren 

 blossoms are produced on different trees. The tree is of rapid 

 growth, and ornamental. 



57. ^CHINESE MULBERRY, Mortis mvlticaidis. See Appendix. 

 A beautiful tree, of rapid and upright growth ; leaves very large and 



cordate ; the upper surface is curled or convex, of a deep shining green. 



58. ^OSAGE ORANGE* Madura aurantiaca. Boiv-WbocL 



A native of the Arkansas and Missouri, where it rises, in beauti- 

 ful proportion, to the height of sixty feet, and has been pronounced 

 one of the most beautiful of our native trees. The leaves are oval 

 and lanceolate, of a bright shining green ; they resemble those of 

 the orange, and the branches, like those of the orange, are covered 

 with long thorns. The fruit is nearly as large as an ostrich's egg, 

 of a golden color, and the trees, when laden with fruit, appear splen- 

 did, but the fruit is not eatable. The wood, according to Mr. Sevier, 

 Member of Congress for Arkansas, is perhaps the most durable in 

 the world, and for ship-building esteemed preferable to live oak ; it 

 is valuable for furniture, as it receives the finest polish, and yields 

 a fine yellow dye. It is remarkably tough, strong, and elastic, and 

 preferred by the Indians to all other wood for bows. It deserves 

 trial for hedges. I know of no wood so beautiful for this purpose. 

 Perfectly hardy on the hills near Boston, but not in every valley. 



59. *JPmus CEMBRO, Bon Jard. 



A medium-sized tree, of a beautiful form, with a straight trunk; 

 the leaves are very long, like those of the Pinus strains ; they grow 

 in fives ; the cones are roundish, the size of an egg ; they contain 

 large seeds, which are eatable and good. The wood of this tree ex- 

 udes a powerful and pleasant odor. At the Chateau of Tarasp, in 

 Switzerland, every apartment is wainscoted with the wood of the 

 Pinus cembro, and various articles of the furniture are formed of 

 this wood, and, although the wainscoting is now some centuries 

 old, it still exudes, with undiminished strength, an odorous perfume. 

 Bull. Univ. (Loud. Mag.) 



60. (1.) PEACH. ^Double Flowering Peach. 

 Highly ornamental when in bloom. See page 198. 

 (2.) Amygdalus Macrocarpce. (3.) Amygdalus orientalis 



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