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THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



OUR ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



2. The Sweet Gum. (Liquidamber sttraciflua.) 



" No tree," says Michaux, " has hitherto heen found in 

 North America so extensively diffused as the Sweet Gum. 

 On the seashore it is seen towards the northeast between 

 Portsmouth and Boston, and is found as far as Mexico 

 towards the southwest ; from the coast of Virginia it extends 

 westward to the lUinois River, thus spreading over more 

 than two-thirds of the ancient territory of the United 

 States," &c. 



THE SWEET GUM TREE. 



We should naturally suppose that a tree so universally dis- 

 tributed, and found by Michaux, who was a most accurate 

 observer, fifty years ago, as far north as Portsmouth, N. H., 

 would be still more or less abundant in the same locality, or at 

 least not a very scarce tree. Yet Mr. Emerson, in his account 

 of the Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts, states that he had 



