HALE'SIA TETRAPTERA. 
FOUR-WINGED SNOWDROP TREE, 
Class. Order. 
DODECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 
Natural Order. 
STYRACE^. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Habit 
Introduced 
Carolina- 
10 feet. 
April, May- 
Tree. 
in 1756. 
No. 902. 
The genus Halesia was named in honour of 
Doctor Stephen Hales, author of Vegetable Statis- 
tics. This plant is called Snowdrop Tree from the 
resemblance of its flowers to the Snowdrop. We 
fear that these are represented in our plate as some- 
what less pendulous than the common habit of the 
plant would warrant ; a circumstance that may 
have arisen from their having been conveyed some 
distance to be drawn. 
This, as it is sometimes cultivated, forms an 
ornamental middle-sized shrub, but it may be 
grown as a tree ; and from its statistics in Loudon’s 
Arboretum Britannicum, we And that at Syon, the 
seat of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, 
there is a tree of the Halesia tetraptera, thirty feet 
high, and its trunk eighteen inches diameter. It 
is also growing, of various sizes, at Bagshot Park, 
Trentham, Alton Towers, Toward Castle, in Scot- 
land; and Ballyleady, in Ireland; still, there is 
occasion to repeat what was said by Dr. Sims, 
nearly forty years ago — We are surprised that a 
shrub of so much beauty should not be more gene- 
rally met with in our pleasure grounds,” 
