283 PRACTICAL F0EE3TET. 



TREES NOT GEI^IRALLT KNOWN. 



Brom^oneUa papyrifera, Vent. — ^Paper Mulberry. — ^A rather 

 common, small tree, in the gardens and parks of our Eastern 

 States, and formerly quite extensively planted for ornament, 

 but its popularity appears to be waning of late years. It is a 

 low-growing tree, with a broad-spreading head, large, roughs 

 ovate, or slightly heart-shaped leaves, often three cleft, or vari- 

 ously lobed. It is closely allied to the Osage Orange. Bark 

 very fibrous. There are several species or varieties, all native 

 of Japan. 



Cedrela Sinensis, Juss. — Chiuese Cedrela. — A strong-growing 

 tree, native of China, with foliage resembling the aUantus, but 

 bearing long trusses of fragrant white flowers. Its resemblance 

 to the ailantus, led Carrifire in "Eevue Horticole," 1865, to give 

 it the name of Ailantus flavescens, but it is more closely relat- 

 ed to to the Melia azedaraeh, or China Tree, described on page 

 173. It wiU probably prove to be as hardy as the common 

 Ailantus. 



Cercidiphyllnm Japonicnm, Sieb. and Zucc— A tall, slender- 

 growing tree, with smooth bark, and medium sized heart-shaped 

 leaves, of a purplish color when young, but becoming bright, 

 glossy-green with age. Flowers very small and inconspicuous. 

 A rare tree from Japan, and although introduced some twenty 

 or more years ago, it has not as yet become common or even 

 plentiful in nurseries. It is quite hardy in the neighborhood 

 of New York City, where the oldest specimens in this country 

 are now growing. 



Encalyptns globnlns. — Fever Tree. — ^A large leaved, strong- 

 scented evergreen tree, introduced from Australia, and exten- 

 sively planted in California, where it has been much praised on 

 account of its rapid growth. la its native country it is said to 

 grow two hundred feet high, but the wood is soft, and of little 

 value. There are an immense number of species of the Euca- 

 lyptus, ail native of Australia, Hew Holland, and Van Diemen's 

 Land, consequently tender in climates where there are frosts in 

 winter. Their only merit is rapid growth and probably some 

 slight curative properties in the balsamic odors emitted by the 

 leaves. 



Idcsia polycarpa, — ^Maxim. — ^A large and handsome tree, native 

 of Japan, with large, sub-cordate leaves, and compoimd racemes 



