NEWER DECIDUOUS TREES AND SHRUBS. 
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SECTION III. 
THE NEWER DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS. 
We do not intend in this section to occupy the atten- 
tion of the reader by any preliminary remarks as to the 
ornamental or practical value of any of the varieties 
we shall describe. Mr. Downing has already, to a 
great extent, done this in the preceding portion of the 
book. It remains for us simply to introduce to planters 
such new scions and connections of their older friends 
— the results, sometimes of inter-marriage between the 
ancient families, producing hybrids and crosses — and 
sometimes from the new discoveries of trees, which the 
increased intercourse all over the world has enabled 
collectors and societies to make. With this introduction 
we shall proceed at once to describe those trees and 
plants omitted in the previous edition and which our 
observation has induced us to believe are well worthy 
the attention of amatuers. 
Acer. The Maple. 
A. Campestre , erroneously campestris of the Catalogues (the 
Common or English Field maple). — This is a beautiful, com- 
pact, round-headed tree, or rather bush, rarely exceeding twenty 
or twenty-five feet in height, and, if allowed to assume its natural 
shape, quite as broad as it is high. This tree, which is one of 
the most ornamental of the maples, is very rarely to be met 
with, though common, we believe, in our best nurseries. It is 
a tree, above all others of its kind, suited to small lawns, where 
it should stand alone, or on the outside of loose gardenesque 
groups, where it is accessible on all sides ; since the character 
