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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
The Sassafras is a very agreeable tree to the eye, decked 
as it is with its glossy, deep green, oval, or three-lobed 
leaves. When fully grown, it is also quite picturesque for 
a tree of so moderate a size ; as its branches generally have 
an irregular, somewhat twisted look, and the head is 
partially flattened, and considerably varied in outline 
After ten years of age, this tree always looks older than it 
really is, from its rough, deeply cracked, grey bark, and 
rather crooked stem. It often appears extremely well on 
the borders of a plantation, and mixes well with almost any 
of the heavier deciduous trees. As it is by no means so 
common a tree as many of those already noticed, it is gene- 
rally the more valued, and may frequently be seen growing 
along the edges of cultivated fields and pastures, appearing 
to thrive well in any good mellow soil. 
The Catalpa Tree. Catcilpa. 
Nat. Ord. Bignoniaceje. Lin. Syst. Diandria, Monogyma. 
A native of nearly all the states south and west of Vir- 
ginia, this tree has become naturalized also throughout the 
middle and eastern sections of the Union, where it is 
generally planted for ornament. 
In Carolina it is called the Catawba tree, after the 
Catawba Indians, a tribe that formerly inhabited that 
country ; and it is probable that the softer epithet now 
generally bestowed upon it in the north, is only a corrup- 
tion of that original name. 
The leaves of this tree are very large, often measuring 
six or seven inches broad ; they are heart-shaped in form, 
