LIQUIDAMBER TREE. 



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tween the wood and the bark issues a fragrant gum, 

 which trickles from wounds made in the trees, and con- 

 geals in the heat of the sun into transparent drops ; this 

 the Indians use as a preservative to their teeth. With 

 the bark they cover their huts. 



This tree is a native of North America, in low clayey 

 ground : it was cultivated in the garden of Compton, 

 Bishop of London, by his gardener, George London, in 

 1688, and bears the severest cold of our climate without 

 injury. 



