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of double-flowered stems. Near the house was a fine specimen of 
Magnolia acuminata, 60 feet high, which had been planted quite small 
in 1853. A large tree of the weeping form of our European beech was 
also a conspicuous object. Clematis paniculata, a Japanese x at 
ak allied to the S. a mao C. Flammula, is a rapid grower, 
part of th the 
Here I ri saw tropical water lilies cultivated in the open air. 
Nelumbium speciosum was grown in a deep unheated tanks, but the 
Nymphea tank had a gen water pipe in the bottom; mn d them were 
N. Sturtevanti, N. dentata, N. devoniensis, and N. zanzi 
large number of tr ‘Spied p tender plants are either ‘plunged or planted 
out of doors during the summer and housed in winter. Among the 
tender shrubs was a fine pyramid, six feet high, of Ligustrum 
coriaceum, the best specimen I had ever seen 
From Boston TO WASHINGTON. 
On the morning of July 4th I left Boston for Washington. Im- 
mediately the first named town was left behind, the hedges and borders 
of woods near the railway were gay with the flowers of Sambucus 
canadensis. Our British chicory (Cichorium Intybus) grew vigorously 
in bare spots along the railway, and varied in — fr "y — 
blue to cars and rarely white. Other introduced we 
Ox-eye Daisy (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), and Mito (Achillea 
Millefolium) whitened the banks in many places; these with red and 
white clover I subsequently tracked for — hundreds of miles; the 
former, indeed, was only lost sight of in the cotton-growing districts of 
the Southern States. Nuphar advena, the American representative of 
our yellow water-lily, was abundant in ponds. "e the woods, 
like yes nci of 1 firanebien: Myrica octane the e Stags-horn 
(Rhus typhina), Rosa humilis, and species of Conia: were common ; 
and Onoclea sensibilis and Asclepias petis the latter in fine flower, 
were to be seen everywhere. e White Pine ( Pinus Strobus) makes 
a striking ud seen either singly or in nin. and on dry banks and 
h ws and roadsides the Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana), 
sometimes of ¢ ae er geret was oe 
Here and there a colony of Lilium canadense in flower made a fine 
display, and a fine rage d a mare ‘of Reidbachia, probably R. hirta, 
with orange-coloured ray florets and black-purple disk, was on d 
ive. gus 
The Virginian Creeper had climbed to the tops of iarge willows by 
ee sides, and in some spots various species of Vitis clothed some of 
trees, 
senema is the best-planted city I have yet seen. No less than 
ies and varieties of trees are used for avenues; eleven maples, 
eight poplars, five elms (among them our two common Euro ropean species), 
four oaks, three walnuts, three limes, € sri two planes, two 
gleditschins, and two birches are used e sively. Some of the more 
an avenue of which made “a beautifu picture—the Kentu tucky Coffee 
(Gymnocladus canadensis), the Tulip-tree ( Liriodendron tulipifera), 
Kolreuteria paniculata, Phellodendron amurense, the deciduous Cypress 
