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in <he gardens. Both surfaces of the leaves, and even the 

 yonng shoots, are deep purple ; and although the growth is 

 slow, yet it is in every stage of its progress, and more par 

 ticularly when it reaches a good size, one of the strangest 

 anomalies among trees, in the hue of its fohage. There is 

 also a variety called the copper-colored beech, with paler 

 purple leaves ;* and a more rare English variety (F. s.pen- 

 dula), the Weeping beech, with graceful pendent branches 



The Hornbeam {Carpinus Americana), and the Iron- 

 wood {Ostrya Virginica), are both well known small trees, 

 belonging to the same natural family as the beech. They 

 are of little value in ornamental plantations ; but from their 

 thick foliage, they might perhaps be employed to advantage 

 in making thick verdant screens for shelter or concealment. 



The Poplar Tree. Poputus. 

 Nat. Ord. oaUcaces. Lin, Syst. Dioecia, Octandria. 



Arbor Populi, or the people's tree, was the name given 

 in the ancient days of Rome to this tree, as being peculiarly 

 appropriated to those public places most frequented by the 

 people : some ingenious authors have still further justified 

 the propriety of the name, by adding, that its trembling 

 leaves are like the populace, always in motion. 



The poplars are light- wooded, rapid-growing trees ; many 



* The finest Copper Beech in America is growing in the grounds of Thomas 

 Ash, Esq., Throgs Neck. Westchester Co., N. Y. It is more than fifty feci 

 tigh, with a broad and finely formed head. 



