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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
The Peperidge Tree. Nyssa . 
Nat. Ord. Santalacese. Lin. Syst. Polygaraia, Dioscia. 
The Peperidge, Tupelo, or sour gum tree, as it is called in 
various parts of the Union, grows to a moderate size, and is 
generally found in moist situations, though we have seen it 
in New- York State, thriving very well in dry upland soils. 
The diameter of the trunk is seldom more than eighteen 
inches, and the general height is about forty or fifty feet. 
The flowers are scarcely perceptible, but the fruit borne in 
pairs, is about the size of a pea, deep blue, and ripens in 
October. 
The leaves are oval, smooth, and have a beautiful gloss on 
their upper surface. The branches diverge from the main 
trunk almost horizontally, and sometimes even bend down- 
wards like those of some of the Pine family, which gives the 
tree a very marked and picturesque character. 
The Peperidge when of moderate size, is not difficult to 
transplant, and we consider it a very fine tree, both on ac- 
count of its beautiful, dark green, and lustrous foliage in sum- 
mer, and the brilliant fiery colour which it takes when the 
frost touches it in autumn. In this respect it is fully equal 
in point of beauty, to that of the Liquidambar or Sweet gum, 
and the maples which we have already described ; and so 
fine a feature do we consider this autumnal beauty of foliage 
that we would by all means advise the introduction of such 
trees as the Peperidge, into the landscape for that reason 
alone, were it not also valuable for its peculiar form and 
polished leaves in summer. 
Besides the Peperidge, there are three other Nyssas, natives 
