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often employed for the lesser utensils of the farm. The bark 

 has been very successfully employed by physicians in Phila- 

 delphia, and elsewhere, and is found to possess nearly the 

 same properties as the Peruvian bark. Bigelow states in his 

 American Botany, that its use in fevers has been known and 

 practised in many sections of the Union by the country peo- 

 ple, for more than fifty years. 



Besides this native species there is an European dogwood, 

 {Corniis masmla,) commonly called the Cornelian cherry^ 

 which is now planted in many of our gardens, and grows to 

 the height of twenty or thirty feet. The small yellow flowers 

 come out close to the branches in March or April, and the 

 whole tree is quite handsome in autumn, from the size and 

 colour of its fine scarlet berries. These are as large as a 

 small cherry, transparent, and hang for a long time upon 

 the tree. The leaves are much like those of the common 

 Dogwood. Although the blossoms are produced when the 

 plant is quite a bush, yet it must attain some age before the 

 fruit sets. Altogether, the Cornelian cherry is one of the 

 most desirable of small trees. 



The Salisburia or Gini^o Tree, 



Nat. Ord. Taxacese. Lin. Syst. Moncecia, Polyandria. 



This fine exotic tree, which appears to be perfectly hardy 

 in this climate, is one of the most singular in its foliage that 

 has ever come under our observation. The leaves are wedge- 

 shaped, or somewhat triangular, attached to the petioles at 

 one of the angles, and pale yellowish green in colour ; the 

 ribs or veins, instead of diverging from the central mid-rib 

 of the leaf, as is commonly the case in dicotyledonous plants, 

 are all parallel ; in short, they almost exactly resemble, (ex- 

 cept in being three or four times as large,) those of the beau- 

 tiful Maiden hair fern, (Adiantum,) common in our woods : 

 being thickened at the edges, and notched on the mariiin in 



