THE WELLIXGTOXIA GIGAXTEA. 



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Sisters" are individuals springing from one root; the "Old Bachelor," 

 stripped of its branches by successive hurricanes, stands in solitary 

 desolation; the "Family" consists of two aged trees around which 

 four-and-twenty scions have sprung up. The "Riding-School" is 

 an enormous hollow trunk, prostrate on the ground, into which a 

 man on horseback may enter as far as thirty yards. Another 



1 Large-leaved Magnolia. 



2. Virginian Catalpa. 



3. Pinus Sabiniana. 



hollow trunk has been exhibited at San Francisco, where they have 

 constructed out of it a saloon, adorned with tapestry and furniture, 

 capable of accommodating forty persons. 



Other resinous trees of smaller dimensions grow in the more or 

 less humid localities of North America ; such are the Chamcecyparis 

 sphceroidea, which does not exceed 80 feet in height, and the Western 



