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spray so common on most forest trees, and have a singularly 
naked look in winter, well calculated to fix the attention of 
the spectator at that dreary season. 
The largest Ailantus trees in America are growing in 
Rhode-Island, where it was introduced from China, under 
the name of the Tillou tree. It has since been rapidly pro- 
pagated by suckers and is now one of the commonest orna- 
mental trees sold in the nurseries. The finest trees, how- 
ever, are those raised from seed. 
The Kentucky Coffee Tree. Gymnocladus. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminosas. Lin. Syst. Dicecia, Decandria. 
This unique tree is found in the western part of the State 
of New- York, and as far north as Montreal, in Canada. But 
it is seen in the greatest perfection, in the fertile bottoms of 
Kentucky and Tennesse. Sixty feet is the usual height of 
the Coffee tree in those soils ; and judging from specimens 
growing under our inspection, it will scarcely fall short of 
that altitude, in well cultivated situations, any where in the 
middle states. 
When in full foliage, this is a very beautiful tree. The 
whole leaf, doubly compound and composed of a great num- 
ber of bluish-green leaflets, is generally three feet long, and 
of two-thirds that width on thrifty trees ; and the whole 
foliage hangs in a well-rounded mass, that would look almost 
too heavy, were it not lightened in effect by the loose, tufted 
appearance of each individual leaf. The flowers, which are 
white, are borne in loose spikes, in the beginning of summer ; 
