190 TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
to alternations of temperature. A barren, moist soil is 
best suited to its growth, where its thrift is surprisingly 
luxuriant. When artificially raised the soil should be 
prepared of a compost of peat, leaf-mould, and sand, kept 
moist and shaded from the sun. It is propagated gen- 
erally by layers, but sometimes from seed, and belongs to 
ve same natural family as our tea-plant of commerce, 
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THE PUBESCENT-LEAVED GORDONIA, 
or Franklinia, is a deciduous tree of small growth, rarely 
exceeding thirty feet in height. It is indigenous to the 
State of Georgia, and possesses no remarkable proper- 
ties except ornament, for which it has been extensively 
cultivated. It bears a white flower about three inches 
in diameter, of an agreeable odor, which blooms in July 
and continues to bud and blow till destroyed by the 
frost. Its native soil, like that of the preceding spe- 
cies, is poor and swampy. Its leaves are shiny above, 
oblong in shape, and finely toothed on their edges. 
