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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
a native of Florida, though hardy enough, as experience 
proves, to bear our northern winters. 
The European lime, ( T. Europcea,) is distinguished from 
the American sorts, by its smaller and more regularly cordate 
and rounded leaves. Unlike our native species, the flowers 
are not furnished with inner scale-like petals. The foliage 
is rather deeper in hue than the native sorts, and the branches 
of the head rather more regular in form and disposition. 
There are two pretty varieties of the English lime which are 
well known in this country, viz : the Red-barked, or corallina, 
( var . rubra,) with red branches ; and the Golden-barked, (var. 
aurea ,) with handsome yellow branches. These trees are 
peculiarly beautiful in winter, when a few of them mingled 
with other deciduous trees make a pleasing variety of colour- 
ing in the absence of foliage. The broad-leaved European 
lime, is the finest for shade and ornament. The whitish 
foliage of Tilia alba , which probably is also a variety, has 
a beautiful appearance, somewhat like the Abele tree, in a 
gentle breeze. 
These trees grow well on any good friable soil, and readily 
endure transplantation. They bear trimming remarkably 
well ; and when but little root is obtained the head may be 
shortened in proportion, and the tree will soon make vigor- 
ous shoots again. All the species are easily increased by 
layers. 
The Beech Tree. Fagus . 
Nat. Ord. Corylacese Lin. Syst. Moncecia, Polyandria. 
The beech is a large, compact, and lofty tree, with a gray- 
