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COMMON LOCUST. 



Vfithln a few years, many of our enterprizing landholders have 

 been devoting- their attention to planting extensive tracts with this 

 $ree, the wood of which is in so much request in ship building*. 

 An acre of these trees planted at two feet distant each wav, will 

 contain ia,8y0— at three feet distant, 4,840— and, at four feet dis- 

 tant, 2,722 — and it is said no appropriation of land is more lucra- 

 tive than that devoted to this purpose. 



LIQUORICE. 



The Glycyrrliiza glabra^ or Liquorice, may be cultivated to equal 

 perfection in the United States, as in any other country. It delights 

 in a light rich sandy soil, and the product is so great/that it would 

 yield an immense profit to the cultivator. Such being the case, it 

 is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when we shall »ot 

 have to depend on England and Spain for our supply. 



DYER'S MADDER. 



This plant, of so much importance in manufactures, and of which 

 ^ve have annually to import large quantities from Holland, will 

 succeed in this country as well as in any part of Europe. It will 

 thrive in any soil except a sand, and would amply remunerate those 

 who would undertake its cultivation on a large scale, as the daily 

 increase .>f our manufactories will cause an enlarged demand for 

 this mdispensable article* 



ROSES. 



No class of plants, so easy of culture as this, yields more intrinsic 

 delights to the amateur; the diversity of size, colour, fragrance, 

 and form, have been varied by art to an almost infinite degree, and 

 in one collection alone in Europe, above 1200 varieties are enumer- 

 ated. Since the previous part of this Catalogue was put to press, 

 near 300 new varieties have been received, and tlie vollection at this 

 establishment now exceeds 500 varieties, including above 50 kinds 

 of China Roses and nine vurietiv s of the Moss Rose, among which 

 are the Striped Moss, Scarlet Moss, Mossy Rose de Meaux, Sec. En- 

 during the rigour of the severest winters unuijured, and yielding 

 with so little attention such a rich accumulation of beauty and 

 fragrance, every garden should possess at le^st all the m.ore con- 

 spicuous varieties of this unrivalled flower; and ii is hoped, ere 

 long, we shall see the fashion followed m this country, which has 

 for years prevailed in England, of training the h »rdy varieties of the 

 Chinese Everblooming Rose against the sides of cur country houses 

 and cottages, as the profusion of flowers which they daily aflbrd 

 from spring to autumn, gives to the retirement of these rural scenes 

 a degree of Floral enchantment, and throws an air of magic round 

 the spot 



