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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
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 propagated by suckers, and is now one of the 
commonest ornamental trees sold in the nurseries. The 
finest trees, however, are those raised from seed. # 
The Kentucky Coffee Tree. Gymnocladus. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminosse. 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 Tennessee. 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, anywhere in the middle states. 
When in full foliage, this is a very beautiful tree. The 
whole leaf, doubly compound and composed of a great 
number 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 
100k almost too heavy, were it not lightened in effect by 
* We think public opinion has very much changed about this tree, since the 
early editions of this work. Being then hut newly introduced, and having (to 
Americans) the very great merit of growing with remarkable rapidity, it was 
very much sought after, and is now, we think, as universally neglected. The 
exceedingly disagreeable odor of its flowers and .young wood, and the trouble- 
some habit of suckering, have quite thrown it into disfavor, especially since its 
place can be now supplied by a much more effective tree, from the same coun- 
try (Japan) : the Paulownia — growing with equal rapidity, and having an early 
Spring bloom, of great beauty and sweetness of perfume.— H. W. S. 
