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DECIDUOUS TREES. 
found one of the choicest little trees to plant near dwellings. But 
as it belongs to a family of trees which are generally tender, it will 
be well to avoid planting it where its hardiness will be severely 
tested; and to maintain its beauty and health in the middle and 
northern States, it must certainly be well protected by mulching 
the ground thoroughly over the roots, binding its stem, and bun¬ 
dling its top with straw or evergreens every autumn. 
The varieties C. v. latifolia , C. v. angnstifolia , and C. v. mari- 
tima , are little known in northern nurseries or pleasure grounds. 
The latter forms a full-foliaged shrub seven to nine feet high in a 
protected situation in Parson’s nursery at Flushing, L. I. Its leaves 
are from five to seven inches long, three to four broad, thick as 
velvet, of a deep green color, and of a waxen glossiness. Its name 
implies its love of the seaside. We are not aware whether it has 
been tried in the interior. 
THE SHEPHERDIA. Shepherdia. 
The Buffalo Berry, S. argentea , is a small tree, native of the 
banks of the Missouri river, where it becomes a tree from twelve 
to eighteen feet in height, and is known by the several names of 
Buffalo-berry, rabbit-berry, and beef-suet tree. Flowers yellow, in 
April and May; berries scarlet, about the size of the red currant, 
of fine flavor, and “ form one continued cluster on every branch. ” 
THE PAW-PAW. Anona triloba. 
A small tree, native of the valley of the Ohio, and of the States 
southward, that bears a yellow oval fruit two or three inches long, 
which is insipid, but eatable. Flowers purple, one inch in diam¬ 
eter. The leaves are smooth-edged, of soft texture, wavy, and the 
form of the shell-bark hickory leaf, elongated. Bark very smooth, 
and of a silver-gray color. It is grown in a protected situation in 
the Central Park, but cannot be considered quite hardy north of 
Washington and Cincinnati. It requires a very rich soil. 
