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America, are the stations of this order. It is unknown in Africa 

 and all the Southern Hemisphere. The species are only known 

 for the sugary sap of the acer saccharinum (sugar maple) and 

 others, from which sugar is extracted in abundance, and for their 

 light and useful timber. The bark is astringent, and yields the 

 dyer reddish br(?wn and yellow colors. 



Tlie JVorway viaple is raised from tlie seed at Fiusliing and Long 

 Island. Some of the trees attain 00 feet in height. The foliage 

 is dense, little liable to injury from worms ; is dark glos>y green 

 on the upper surface, light-colored below, and remains ])Hgat all 

 summer. 



Mr. Curr, the gardener for this city, on the experience he has 

 had, recommends it as bearing a city position better than most 

 others which have been tried. It will attain a large size if not 

 prevented. The growth is quick, for the trees of twenty-one feet 

 height are about fourteen years only from the seed. 



Annals de la Societe d'Horticulture, Paris, June, 1852. 



Plants newly introduced by Thibaut and Keteleer, Charonne 

 street, Paris : — 



Many beautiful new plants are seen here, very curious and 

 original ; for very rich flowers and leaves are growing in the con- 

 servatories all seasons of the year. One, a charming bush, the 

 Franciscea Confcrtiflora^ which flowered for the first time in Febr- 

 uary and March last, is the most beautiful of the kind known at 

 this day. The leaves are large oval acuminate; flowers, large, 

 smooth, and disposed in a sort of corymbus (a flower with a cen- 

 tral axis, with lateral peduncles or loot-stems, the lower ones so 

 long that their flowers are elevated as high as the uppermost.) 

 The color is a beautiful blue, giving a fine efiect. 



Anopteris glandulosa^ a bush from Australia. — Fine form, leaves 

 indented and shining; long bunches of^ flowers of a greenish white, 

 which last a long time. 



They have many ether fine new plants. 



