THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



APRIL, 1853. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



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Art. I. The Foi^est Trees of America. 



It is gratifying to every lover of beautiful trees to see how 

 highly our native species are beginning to be appreciated. 

 For years our planters have ransacked every foreign catalogue, 

 and every foreign publication upon the subject, in order to 

 find out all that foreign cultivators have gathered from other 

 countries, or produced by chance or hybridization in their 

 own gardens ; either forgetting or not knowing that the flora 

 of North America is richer than that of any other country, 

 or, in really hardy and valuable trees and shrubs, richer than 

 all other countries together. 



The late Mr. Loudon, in his valuable work, the Arboretum, 

 has given a complete history and biography of all the 

 trees indigenous to, and introduced into, Great Britain up to 

 1838 ; and for the information of those who are not familiar 

 with it, we glean the following facts, which Avill fully bear 

 us out in our estimate of the value of our native trees and 

 shrubs. 



The entire number of trees indigenous to Great Britain, as 

 enumerated by Sir J. E. Smith, in the English Flora, and 

 Sir W. Hooker, in his British Flora, is seventy-one genera, 

 including nearly two hundred species, one hundred of which 

 are willows, roses and brambles. The principal are : — 



27 Deciduous trees from 30 ft. to 60 ft. in height. 



28 Deciduous trees from 15 ft. to 30 ft. in height. 



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