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yellow flowers come out close to the branches in March or 
April, and the whole tree is quite handsome in autumn, 
from the size and color of its fine oval scarlet berries. 
These are as large as a small cherry, transparent, and hang 
for a long time upon the tree. The leaves are much like 
those of the common Dogwood. Although the blossoms 
are produced when the plant is quite a bush, yet it must 
attain some age before the fruit sets. Altogether, the 
Cornelian cherry is one of the most desirable of small 
trees.* 
The Salisbttria, or Ginko Tree. 
Nat. Ord . Taxacese. Lin. Syst. Monceeia, Polyandria. 
This fine exotic tree, which appears to be perfectly hardy 
in this climate, is one of the most singular in its foliage that 
has ever come under our observation. The leaves are 
wedge-shaped, or somewhat triangular, attached to the 
petioles at one of the angles, and pale yellowish green in 
color ; the ribs or veins, instead of diverging from the 
central mid-rib of the leaf, as is commonly the case in 
dicotyledonous plants, are all parallel ; in short, they almost 
exactly resemble (except in being three or four times as 
large) those of the beautiful Maiden hair fern ( Adiantum ) 
common in our woods : being thickened at the edges and 
notched on the margin in a similar manner. The male 
flowers are yellow, sessile catkins ; the female is seated in a 
curious kind of cup, formed by the enlargement of the sum- 
mit of the peduncle. The fruit is a drupe, about an inch 
in length, containing a nut, which, according to Dr. Abel, 
is almost always to be seen for sale in the markets of China 
* ( Carnus variegata ), the Variegated Dogwood, with leaves curiously blotched 
with white, and ( G . sangumea ), with its young shoots of a bright scarlet — very- 
showy in Winter, are both very desirable varieties. — H. W. S. 
