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TREES RECOMMENDED FOR CULTIVATION. 

 In giving the description of such trees as are natives of this state, or such 

 as are adapted to the forests of Wisconsin, we have made use of the des- 

 criptions of Gray's "Botany," Darlington's "Flora of Chester County," 

 Fuller's "Forest Culturist," and "The Vegetable world," by Louis Figuier, 

 without quotations. In the same manner we have made free use of the pa- 

 pers on the culture and management of " Forest Trees," and "American 

 Forests,'' found in the Reports of the Department of Agriculture of the 

 United States, 1864 and 1865. Sometimes using their ideas ; sometimes ex- 

 panding, changing, or abridging their descriptions, and sometimes copying 

 them ; and again combining and weaving thesa books and papers together in 

 the same sentence, with our own observations and examinations, in regard to 

 our climate, and the adaptation of certain trees to our wants. 



MAGNOLIACE^. (Magnolia family.) 

 None of this family is known to exist as natives of Wisconsin ; it consists 

 of trees and large shrubs, with large showy flowers, of calyx and oorrolla col- 

 ored, and placed in rows of threes. Stamens and pistils numerous, also in 

 rows, the latter mostly packed iogether around and covering the prolonged 

 recepticle, cohering, and in fruit, forming a sort of fleshy or dry cone. Seeds 

 one or two in each carpel ; leaves alternate, not toothed, marked with minute 

 transparent dots, feather vaned. Bark aromatic and bitter. Flowers, sin- 

 gle, large, sweet scented. The family is named after Magnol, Professor of 

 Botany at Montpelier, in the 17th century. 



MAGNOLIA ACCUMUNATA. {Owmniber tree..) 

 Leaves oval, pointed, green, and a little pubescent beneath, scatter! n g 



