FLORA OF NEW JERSEY. 



The State of New Jersey extends nearly two hundred miles from north 

 to south, possessing a very varied surface, and a no less diversified geo- 

 logical formation. The land rises in the north and west, in mountain 

 - of three thousand feet, grading towards the south and east to low 

 plains just a few feet above the sea level, and is the beginning of the 

 territory along the eastern side of the Appalachian system, known as the 

 Atlantic slope ; where it first assumes the marked characteristic of low 

 plains on the coast, succeeded inland by a hilly country, which grades 

 upwards into mountains. 



This difference of elevation from the south towards the north gives a 



wide range of temperature, so that while in the northern boundaries of 



State plants are found common to New England, the southern and 



regions yield the vegetation of Eastern Virginia. 



The who!. border is washed by the Delaware River, fed by 



tributaries from Pennsylvania and New York, bringing to its banks the 



territory north and west of it. 



I-- eastern shores are washed by the Hudson River and the Atlantic 



•f many lands to tin* alluvial plains which skirt 



teni boundaries. Its varied <oil is another remarkable feature of 



in the north a< 1 by iron and peal : marl, 



alluvial, arenaceous, and clay deposits, with red shale- and heavy loam, 



th iron, in the middle ; while in the south and east loose 



• and iphagnons bog ••• with 



:" loam, in which clay mOS 



