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DECIDUOUS TREES. 
Straight, not very numerous, and the foliage is most abundant near 
their extremities. 
The beauty of the tree can be greatly heightened by occasional 
cutting back. It is a tree to plant near the house, or a walk, 
where its singular and pretty leaves can be seen readily. The 
seed is a nut, which is boiled, and valued for eating. A rich sandy 
soil, with dry subsoil, suits it best. There are specimens in this 
country from seventy to eighty feet high. In Japan specimens 
have been seen grown to the height of eighty to one hundred feet, 
with trunks from six to twelve feet in diameter. One is mentioned 
by a traveller the trunk of which measured forty feet in circum- 
ference ! 
The Large-leaved Salisburia. A. adiantifolia 77iacrophylla. 
— This is a new French variety, which has much larger leaves than 
the species, and divided in two, three, or five lobes, and these 
again with undulated edges. Probably well worth the price its 
novelty will command among tree enthusiasts. 
The Variegated Salisburia. S. a. variegata. — “This variety 
differs from the ordinary form by its leaves being variegated and 
striped with yellow.” It is recommended on high English au- 
thority as a desirable variety. 
THE SCOTCH LARCH. Larix Eiiropcea. 
A tree which has been almost as much over-valued for orna- 
mental purposes within the past twenty years, as the Moms 77iulti- 
caulis was for silk-growing fifteen years before. Downing’s warm 
praise doubtless did much to create a demand for it ; and the great 
facility with which it is grown in nurseries made it profitable for 
nurserymen to echo its praises. If Downing’s careful qualification 
of its praise could always have accompanied his encomiums on its 
merits, and been intelligently appreciated, little harm would have 
been done. He says : “ Like all highly expressive and characteris- 
tic trees, much more care is necessary in introducing the larch into 
artificial scenery judiciously, than round-headed trees. If planted 
in abundance it becomes monotonous from the similitude of its 
