THE MAGAZINE 



OP 



HORTICULTURE. 



MARCH, 1841. 



ORIGINAL COiMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Some J^otice of the Vegetable Productions of the 

 Valley of Columbia River^ and China. By Gen. H. A. S. 

 Dearborn. 



While reading the Rev. Mr. Parker's account of his jour- 

 ney to the mouth of the Columbia river, and Mr. Irving's ^s- 

 toria^ soon after they were pubhshed, I made extracts of such 

 portions of tliose interesting works, as related to the vegetable 

 productions of the Oregon Territory, which, I thought, might 

 be desirable to obtain, either for their valuable qualities, or to 

 increase the number of our ornamental trees and shrubs; and 

 having recently examined the accounts of the embassies of 

 Lords Macartney and Amherst to China, in 1792 and 1816, I 

 have added succinct descriptions of a number of the most 

 remarkable trees and plants which are cultivated in that em- 

 pire, and it is believed might be advantageously introduced 

 into this country. 



As the most direct and certain mode of accomplishing the 

 objects that have been named, the notes which have been 

 made are subjoined, for publication in the Horticultural Mag- 

 azine. 



Either the plants or seeds can be obtained, if the gentle- 

 men who have commercial intercourse with China, and the 

 officers of the Missionary Society, who are in correspondence 

 with their establishments on the Columbia river, would aid in 

 the attempt. 



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