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Fig. 58. — Salix nigra X alba. — See paj^e 423. 

 I. A flowering branch of tile staminate tree. 1 A stamina'e flower, enlarged. 3. Scale of a staminate flower, enlarged. 4. A flowering branch of the pistillate 



tree, natural size. 5. A fruit, enlarged. 6. Scale of a pistillate flower, enlarged. 



A summer branchlet, natural size. 



and eighty feet high. Large individual trees are often seen 

 much farther north, and on page 215 of vol. vii. we gave 

 the portrait of a tree on Long Island which has a diameter 

 of forty-three inches at two feet from the ground. Although 

 it is so common, like many other native trees, it is much 

 neglected by planters, notwithstanding its usefulness. It is 



easily raised, too, for if the seeds are planted as soon as 

 they are ripe they will germinate ne.xt spring, and the 

 suckers, which are often produced in great abundance, 

 can be easily transplanted. To many persons the Sassafras is 

 interesting from its relationship to such trees as the Bay, the 

 Cinnamon and the Camphor, and perhaps its aromatic flavor 



