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SECTION IV. 
DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
File History and Description of all the finest hardy Deciduous Trees. Remarks os 
THEIR gy/ECTS IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING, INDIVIDUALLY AND IN COMPOSITION. Their 
Cultivation, etc. The Oak. The Elm. The Ash. The Linden. The Beech. The 
Poplar. The Horse-chestnut. The Birch. The Alder. The Maple. The Locust. 
The Three-thorned Acacia. The Judas-tree. The Chestnut. The Osage Orange. 
The Mulberry. The Paper Mulberry. The Sweet Gum. The Walnut. The Hickory 
The Mountain Ash. The Ailantus. The Kentucky Coffee. The Willow. The 
Sassafras. The Catalpa. The Persimon. The Pepperidge. The Thorn. The 
Magnolia. The Tulip. The Dogwood. The Salisburia. The Paulonia. The Virgilia 
The Cypress. The Larch, etc. 
O gloriosi spiriti de gli boschi, 
0 Eco, o antri foschi, o chiare linfe, 
O faretrate ninfe, o agresti Pani, 
O Satiri e Silvani, o Fauni e Driadi, 
Naiadi ed Amadriadi, o Semidee 
Oreadi e Napee. — 
Sannazzako 
“ 0 spirits of the woods, 
Echoes and solitudes, and lakes of light ; 
0 quivered virgins bright, Pan’s rustical 
Satyrs and sy Ivans all, dryads and ye 
That up the mountains be ; and ye beneath 
In meadow or in flowery heath.” 
The Oak. Quercus. 
Nat. Ord. Corylacese. Lin. Syst. Moncecia, Polyandria. 
H E Arcadians believed the oak to have 
been the first created of all trees ; and 
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when we consider its great and surpassing 
utility and beauty, we are fully disposed 
:o concede it the first rank among the denizens of the 
