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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
The Salisburia was introduced into this country by that 
zealous amateur of horticulture and botany, the late Mr. 
Hamilton, of Woodlands, near Philadelphia, who brought it 
from England in 1784, where it had been received from 
Japan about thirty years previous. There are several of 
these now growing at Woodlands ; and the largest measures 
sixty feet in height, and three feet four inches in circum- 
ference. The next largest specimen which we have seen, 
is now standing on the north side of that fine public square, 
the Boston Common. It originally grew in the grounds of 
Gardiner Green, Esq., of Boston ; but though of fine size, it 
was, about three years since, carefully removed to its present 
site, which proves its capability for bearing transplanting. 
Its measurement is forty feet in elevation, and three in cir- 
cumference. There is also a very handsome tree in the 
grounds of Messrs. Landreth, Philadelphia, about thirty-five 
feet high, and very thrifty. 
We have not learned that any of these trees have yet 
borne their blossoms ; ' at any rate, none but male blossoms 
have yet been produced. Abroad, the Salisburia has fruited 
in the South of France, and young trees have been reared 
from the nuts. 
The bark is somewhat soft and leathery, and, on the 
trunk and branches, assumes a singular tawny yellow, or 
grayish colour. The tree grows pretty rapidly, and forms 
an exceedingly neat, loose, conical, or tapering head. The 
timber is very solid and heavy ; and the tree is said to grow 
to enormous size in its native country ; Bunge, who accom- 
panied the mission from Russia to Pekin, states that he saw 
near a Pagoda, an immense Ginko tree, with a trunk 
nearly forty feet in circumference, and still in full vigour of 
vegetation.* 
* Bull, de la Soc. d’Agir. du depart, de l’Herault. Arb. Brit. 
