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and most frequent occurrence in the middle States, is M. glauca, the 

 flowers of which are highly odoriferous. It succeeds best in damp 

 soils, and is found very plentifully in situations of this kind in New 

 Jersey. 



Ornamental trees from other countries should find a prominent 

 place in the plantations of our horticulturists. They not only have 

 an intrinsic value in themselves, but, to a refined taste, they offer 

 gratifications from the associations connected with them. Thus the 

 proprietor may view, in the walks over his grounds, not only pro- 

 ductions of his own country, but their fellows from many other 

 climes. We may witness flourishing upon the same soil, many of 

 the productions of southern Europe and Asia ; individuals from the 

 frigid regions of Siberia, and the almost unknown forests of Pata- 

 gonia ; vegetables which perseverance has abstracted from the jea- 

 lous Chinese, and which the botanical traveller has discovered 

 among the haunts of the savage Indian. 



Among the foreign trees which are most generally cultivated 

 for ornament in this country, we may mention the two genera of 

 Tilia and ^Esculus. The European lime or linden-tree, with its fine 

 stately form and fragrant blossoms, is a most pleasing object as an 

 ornamental tree. The horse chestnut (^E. hippocastanum) is per- 

 haps better known than any foreign tree in the country ; its com- 

 pact growth, fine digitate leaves, and above all, its superb, showy 

 flowers, distributed in huge bouquets over the foliage, have rendered 

 it here, as in Europe, an object of universal admiration. We would 

 here beg leave to direct the attention of planters to the less known, 

 but no less interesting species of this tree, natives of our own soil. 

 M. paira, producing red, and M. flava, yellow flowers, form very 

 beautiful trees of moderate size. The other species are rather large 

 shrubs than trees, and are very pretty ornaments to the garden. 



The brilliant appearance of the European mountain ash (Sor- 

 bus aucuparia), when in autumn it is densely clad with its rich 

 crimson fruit, is a circumstance sufficient to give it strong claims to 

 the care of the arboriculturist, independently of the beauty of its 

 foliage. 



We must not forget, in this brief notice, the larches both of Eu- 

 rope and our country. Pinus tarix has long been considered among 



