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SYLVAN SKETCHES. 



Like a chenar tree grove, when winter throws 

 O'er all its tufted heads his feathering snows *." 



He gives a quotation from Forster, in which that 

 author says there are numerous small islands rising from 

 the Lake of Cashmere, and that one is called Char 

 Chenaur, from the Plane trees upon it. 



" Though sunny the lake of cool Cashmere, 

 With its plane tree isle reflected clear 



" The Chenar is a delightful tree ; its bole has a fine 

 white and smooth bark ; and its foliage, which grows in 

 a tuft at the summit, is of a bright green J." 



The American Plane tree, Platanus Occidentalism is 

 called by the English Americans Button-wood, or Water- 

 beech : it is remarkable for its quick growth. There are 

 such numbers of them in the low meadows between Phi- 

 ladelphia and the ferry of Gloucester, that in summer it 

 is a shady walk all the way. 



This Plane was introduced here early in the seventeenth 

 century. Johnson, in his edition of Gerarde's Herbal, in 

 1633, mentions two young ones at that time growing in 

 the garden of Mr. Tradescant. It does not bear the 

 severer frosts of this country ; in that of 1812 the greater 

 number of the Planes in England perished. 



* Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. 

 t Moore's Paradise and the Peri. % Morier's Travels. 



