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HORNBEAM, or HARDBEAM-TREE. 

 — CARPINUS. 



Natural order, Amentacecz. Balaniferce, Juss. 

 A genus of the Moncecia Polyandria class. 



•" Art thrives most 



Where commerce has enrich'd the busy coast. 

 He catches all improvements in his flight, 

 Spreads foreign wonders in his country's sight.'' 



Cowper. 



The introduction of so many exotic trees 

 and shrubs within this last century has ba- 

 nished some of our native plants from the 

 grove, but fashion, who reigns with arbitrary 

 power in these dominions, has entirely swept 

 away the hornbeam, which composed the 

 labyrinth, the maze, the alleys, the verdant 

 galleries, arcades, porticoes and arches of our 

 forefathers; and which formed the leafy walls 

 that divided their stately gardens into stars, 

 goose-foot avenues, and devices as numerous 

 as geometrical figures are various. These 

 have all been banished with the hornbeam, 

 which taste has outlawed from the modern 

 plantation for having so long usurped a pre- 



