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in .he gardens. Both surfaces of the leaves, and even the 
yo-ong shoots, are deep purple ; and although the growth is 
slow, yet it is in every stage of its progress, and more par 
ticularly when it reaches a good size, one of the strangest 
anomalies among trees, in the hue of its foliage. There is 
also a variety called the copper-colored beech, with paler 
purple leaves and a more rare English variety (F. s. pen- 
dula), the Weeping beech, with graceful pendent branches 
The Hornbeam ( Carpinus Americana), and the Iron- 
wood ( Ostrya Virginica), are both well known small trees, 
belonging to the same natural family as the beech. They 
are of little value in ornamental plantations ; but from their 
thick foliage, they might perhaps be employed to advantage 
in making thick verdant screens for shelter or concealment. 
The Poplar Tree. Populus. 
Nat. Ord. ©aiioaceae. Lin. Syst. Diced a, Octandria. 
Arbor Populi, or the people’s tree, was the name given 
in the ancient days of Rome to this tree, as being peculiarly 
appropriated to those public places most frequented by the 
people: some ingenious authors have still further justified 
the propriety of the name, by adding, that its trembling 
leaves are like the populace, always in motion. 
The poplars are light- wooded, rapid-growing trees ; many 
* The finest Copper Beech in America is growing in the grounds of Thomas 
Ash, Esq., Throgs Neck, Westchester Co., N. Y. It is more than fifty feel 
Ugh, with a broad and finely formed head. 
