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PRACTICAL FORESTRY. 



C. Japonica. — Japan Judas-Tree. — Leaves largest of all, 

 broadly heart-shape, dark rich green, smooth. Flowers larger 

 than those of our indigenous species, and produced in great 

 abundance, even from spurs on the old stems and branches. A 

 low, much-branched shrub, six to ten feet high. Seed occa- 

 sionally ripening in this coimtry, but flower buds often killed in 

 severe winters at the North. When this shrub was first intro- 

 duced into Europe, or the United States, I have been unable to 

 ascertain, but it must have found its way to America at a much 

 earlier date than is usually given by our nurserymen, for in 

 1856, there was a large plant, eight feet high, and with many 

 stems in the old Prince nursery, at Flushing, N. Y. This plant 

 could not have been less than ten years old at that time, which 

 would carry the date of introduction back to 1846, or nearly 

 forty years ago. I obtained layered plants from this old stock 

 in 1858, and have had it in my garden ever since. Layers of 

 the smaller branches root very readily, and usually the first 

 season they are put down. All the species may be propagated 

 in the same manner, or from seeds, where they can be obtained. 



Cerasus. — (Cherry).— See Prunus, 



CHiLOPSis, Don. — Desert Willoiu, 



A genus represented by only one species in the United States. 

 It is closely aUied to the Catalpa-tree, and our common Trumpet 

 Creeper {Tecoma radicans). A large order in the tropics, but 

 has few representatives in the temperate zone. 



Chilopsis saligaa, Don. —Texas Flowering Willow, Desert Willow. 

 — Leaves long, narrow, or linear-lanceolate, four to six inches 

 long, opposite in whorls or irregularly alternate, entire and 

 slightly sticky when old. Flowers funnel-form, one to two 

 inches long, white and purplish, in short, terminal racemes. 

 A small but handsome tree, twenty feet high. In Southern 

 Texas, in Mexico, and Southern California. Probably not hardy 

 anywhere in our Northern States, but a valuable ornamental 

 shrub or tree for the South. P. J. Berckmans, of the Fruit- 

 land Nurseries, Augusta, Ga., writes me that it grows freely 

 from cuttings, making plants five or six feet high the first 

 season. 



CHiONANTHUS. — White Fringe Tree, 



A genus closely related to the common ash (Fraxinus). Only 

 one species, and this muchadmired for its long, loose panicles of 



