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of trees and best of timber ; thp Catalpha^ blossoms 

 far more beautiful than those of the horse-chestnut, 

 broad and beautiful leaves that do not scorch in the 

 hottest sun ; all the beautifully blowing Laurel- 

 tribe ; the Rose of Charon (as it is called here) and 

 the Althea Frutex ; the Azalia of all colours ; 

 Roses of several kinds. But, there is one shrub of 

 the larger kind', abundant here, that I never saw 

 there, and that is the thing which some call the 

 Morning Star. It has six leaves in its flower, 

 which is in the form of the flower of the single 

 rose. The whole flower when open, is about three 

 times the circumference of a dollar. Some of 

 the trees bear blossoms quite white, and others 

 blossoms of a whitish peach blossom colour. 

 These blossoms come the earliest in the spring. 

 They are out /mZZ, in Long Island, in'the first week 

 in May, which is rather earlier than the peach- 

 blossoms. In England, they would be out full, on 

 an average of years, in the last week of February, 

 which is an anticipation of all their shrubs. The 

 trees, which is a great quality, thrive well under 

 other trees, which, indeed, seems to be their nature. 

 You see, from a great distance, their bright and 

 large blossoms, unaccompanied by leaves, shining 

 through the boughs of the other trees ; and some 

 of them reach the height oi forty feet. This, there- 

 fore, is a very fine flowering tree ; and yet I never 

 saw one of the kind in England.^ How beautiful a 

 grove might be made of this tree, the wild-cherry, 

 the Locust, the Catalpha, and the Althea-frutex 1 

 And,here they are all, only for the trouble of sow- 

 ing ; for from the seed the tree will surely come. 



332. I shall now proceed to give an Alphabetical 

 List of such flowering Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, 

 as I think worthy of cultivation ; or, rather, that I 



