DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
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40 feet high. They may be procured from the nurseries, 
and we can hardly recommend to our planters more accept- 
able additions to our nut bearing forest trees. 
The Chinquapin or Dwarf chestnut, (C. 'pumila,) is a cu- 
rious low bush, from four to six feet high. The leaves are 
nearly the size of the ordinary chestnut, or rather smaller, 
and the fruit about two-thirds as large. It is indigenous to 
all the states south of Pennsylvania, and is often found in 
great abundance. It is a curious little tree, or more properly 
a shrub, and merits a place in the garden : or it may be 
advantageously planted for underwood in a group of large 
trees. 
As the chestnut, like the oak, forms strong tap-roots, it is 
removed with some difficulty. The finest trees are produced 
from the nut, and their growth is much more rapid when 
young, than that of the transplanted tree. It prefers a deep 
sandy loam, rather moist than dry ; and will not, like many 
forest trees, accommodate itself to wet and low situations. 
The Osage Orange Tree. Maclura. 
Nat. Ord. Urticacess Lin. Syst. Dicecia, Tetrandria. 
This interesting tree is found growing wild on the Arkan- 
sas River, and other western tributaries of the Mississippi, » 
south of St. Louis, where, according to Mr. Nuttall, it attains 
the height of 50 or 60 feet. The branches are rather light- 
coloured, and armed with spines, (produced at every joint,) 
about an inch and a half long. The leaves are long, ovate 
and acuminate, or pointed at the extremity ; they are deep 
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