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about fifty feet ; the buds are shorter, and the leaves not so 
coarsely toothed as our native sorts. The Purple beech is a 
very ornamental variety of the European beech, common in 
the gardens. Both surfaces of the leaves, and even the 
young shoots, are deep purple ; and although the growth is 
slow, yet it is in every stage of its progress, and more partic- 
ularly when it reaches a good size, one of the strangest ano- 
malies among trees, in the hue of its foliage. There is also a 
variety called the copper-coloured beech, with paler purple 
leaves ;* and a more rare English variety, (id s. pendula ,) the 
Weeping beech, with graceful pendant branches. 
The Hornbeam, (Carpinus Americana,) and the Iron- 
wood, ( Ostrya Virginica.) are both well known small trees, 
belonging to the same natural family as the beech. They 
are of little value in ornamental plantations ; but from their 
thick foliage, they might perhaps be employed to advantage 
in making thick verdant screens for shelter or concealment. 
The Poplar Tree. Populus. 
Nat. Ord. Salicacese. Lin. Syst. Dioscia, Octandria. 
Arbor populi , or the people’s tree, was the name given in 
the ancient days of Rome to this tree, as being peculiarly 
appropriated to those public places most frequented by the 
* The finest Copper Beech in America is growing in the grounds of Thomas 
Ash, Esq., Throgs Neck, Westchester Co., N. Y. It is more than fifty feet high, 
with a broad and finely formed head. 
