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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



The bark is smooth and gray, even upon the oldest stocks. 

 The leaves oval, smooth and shining, coarsely cut on the 

 edges, and margined with a soft down in the spring. 



The Red beech, [F. ferriiginea^) so called on account of 

 the colour of its wood, loves a still colder climate than the 

 other, and is found in the greatest perfection in British Amer- 

 ica. The leaves are divided into coarser teeth on the mar- 

 gin than the foregoing species. The nuts are much smaller, 

 and the whole tree forms a lower and more spreading head- 



The European beech, [F. sylvatica,) is thought by many 

 botanists to be the same species as our white beech, or at 

 most only a variety. Its average height in Europe is 

 about fifty feet ; the buds are shorter, and the leaves not so 

 coarsely toothed as our native sorts. The Purple beech is a 

 very ornamental variety of the European beech, common in 

 the gardens. Both surfaces of the leaves, and even the 

 young shoots, are deep purple ; and although the growth is 

 slow, yet it is in every stage of its progress, and more partic- 

 ularly when it reaches a good size, one of the strangest ano- 

 malies among trees, in the hue of its foliage. There is also a 

 variety called the Copper-coloured beech, with paler purple 

 leaves ; and a very rare English variety, {F. s. pendula,) the 

 Weeping beech, with graceful pendant branches. 



The Hornbeam, {Carpinus Americana,) and the Iron- 

 wood, ( Ostrya Virginica,) are both well known small trees, 

 belonging to the same natural family as the beech. They 

 are of little value in ornamental plantations ; but from their 

 thick foliage, they might perhaps be employed to advantage 

 in making thick verdant screens for shelter or concealment. 



The Poplar Tree. Populus. 



Nat. Ord. Salicaceae. Lin. Syst. Dioecia, Octandria. 



Arbor populi, or the people's tree, was the name given in 

 the ancient days of Rome to this tree, as being peculiarly 



