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BUCKWHEAT TREE. 
greenhouse plant, and well worth cultivating. But to see 
it in perfection, you must behold it in its native swamps, 
attaining the magnitude of a tree, and blooming profusely 
on the verge of winter, without any thing near it as a con- 
trast, save a withered carpet of leaves and leafless plants, 
and in the midst of a gloom and solitude that scarcely any 
thing else at the time relieves. 
In Bartram’s Botanic Garden, (Kingsessing), it appeared 
to be quite hardy, and survived for many years without 
any protection. 
Plate LXXIII. 
A branch of the natural size, the fruit. 
