DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES. 203 



a similar manner. The male flowers are yellow, sessile cat- 

 kins ; the female is seated in a curious kind of cup, formed 

 by the enlargemejit of the summit of the pedundle. The 

 fruit is a drupe, about an inch in length, containing a nut, 

 which, according to Dr. Abel, is almost always to be seen 

 for sale in the markets of China and Japan, the native coun- 

 try of this tree. They are eaten, after having been roasted 

 or boiled, and are considered excellent. 



The Salisburia was introduced into this country by that 

 zealous amateur of horticulture and botany, the late Mr. Ha- 

 milton of Woodlands, near Philadelphia, who brought it from 

 England in 17S4, where it had been received from Japan 

 about thirty years previous. There are several of these now 

 growing at Woodlands ; and the largest measures fifty-five 

 feet in height, and three feet four inches in circumference. 

 The next largest specimen which we have seen, is now stand- 

 ing on the north side of that fine public square, the Boston 

 Common. It originally grew in the grounds of Gardiner 

 Green, Esq. of Boston ; but though of fine size, it was about 

 three years since, carefully removed to its present site, which 

 proves its capability for bearing transplanting. Its meas- 

 urement is forty feet in elevation, and nearly four in circum- 

 ference. There is also a very handsome tree in the grounds 

 of Messrs. Landreth, Philadelphia, about thirty-five feet high, 

 and very thrifty. 



We have not learned that any of these trees have yet borne 

 their blossoms ; at any rate, none but male blossoms have 

 yet been produced. Abroad, the Salisburia has fruited in 

 the south of France, and young trees have been reared from 

 the nuts. 



The bark is somewhat soft and leathery, and on the 

 trunk and branches assumes a singular tawny yellow, or 



