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in our whole native sylva. Like the Ailantus, it is entirely- 

 destitute of small spray, but it also adds to this the additional 

 singularity of thick blunt terminal branches, without any per- 



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[Fig. 21. The Keiilucky Coffee Tree.] 



ceptible buds. Alto^^ether it more resembles a dry, dead, 

 and withered combination of sticks, than a living and thrifty 

 tree. Although this would be highly monotonous and dis- 

 pleasing, were it the common appearance of our deciduous 

 trees in winter ; yet, as it is not so, but a rare and very un- 

 ique exception to the usual beautiful diversity of spray and 

 ramification, it is highly interesting to place such a tree as 

 the present in the neighbourhood of other full-sprayed spe- 

 cies, w^here the curiosity which it excites M'ill add greatly 



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