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improvement in its habits are effected. We can show some convincing ex- 

 amples. 



A glauca standing in my grounds, started from a seed in 1842, is now 

 seven feet high. The trunk, eighteen inches above the ground, measures six 

 inches in circumference ; and its top extends into several lateral branches. 

 A dozen or two of inferior flowers are annually produced. Its aspect is 

 that of an old and decrepit shrub, unworthy of attention. 



In beautiful contrast, and contiguous to it, may be seen another glauca, 

 with a large and spreading top, more than twenty-one feet high, with a 

 body thirty-seven inches in circumference at its largest expansion. Its 

 leaves and flowers surpass the others in size, numbers, and perfection. 

 During a period of about six weeks, in the months of June and July, it puts 

 forth daily a profusion of pure white blossoms, the neat and chaste ap- 

 pearance of which by day, and the agreeable odor at evening, excite admi- 

 ration. At the approach of night, the perfume, mingling with falling dews, 

 is disseminated a great distance along a thronged public thoroughfare, and 

 elicits many exclamations of wonder and surprise, uttered in as many 

 varied accents as were heard from the readers of the epitaph of " Poor 

 Yorick." 



This tree is probably the largest specimen of the glauca in the Union, 

 certainly in the more Northern States ; and it illustrates both the feasibility 

 and the advantages of employing the acumijiata for the stock in propagat- 

 ing this species. It originated from a bud cut from the seedling glauca, 

 just described, when that was four years old. The bud was inserted into 

 a young cucumber-tree of a similar age in the summer of 1846. 



Similar soil and cultivation have been afforded to each. The one is a 

 mere shrub, that has already passed its maturity ; the other a good-sized 

 tree, vigorous and healthy, annually extending as large a growth as in its 



^"^^y y^"^^- Dr. Jared P. Kirtland. 



Cleveland, O. 



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