THE ALDER. 



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CUT-LEAVED ALDER. 



Among the varieties of the Alder, the Al. g. laciniata, 

 Cut-leaved Alder, forms one of the finest and handsomest, 

 growing - with great vigour, and attaining a magnitude 

 fully equal to that of the species ; most of the trees 

 recorded hy Loudon, (some of which are stated to he 

 upwards of seventy feet high,) helong to this variety, and 

 as it hears a foreign and uncommon aspect and is not 



