A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton.

  • John Barton
Date:
1827
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Credit: A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    up from the root to the height of thirty feet or more, bearing a branched spike of many thou- sand large and splendid flowers. From the ridges of the Alleghany mountains, which inter- sect the United States, running nearly parallel with the shore of the Atlantic, comes the beau- tiful Robinia Pseudo-Acacia, commonly culti- vated in our shrubberies, under the name of Acacia. Few trees equal it in elegance of fo- liage, or in the beauty of its pendent clusters of white pea-shaped blossoms, sometimes slight- ly tinged with pink. It grows very* fast, and has been recommended by Cobbett to be plant- ed for timber. In the United States is also found the Red Cedar*, a tree not uncommon in our shrubberies. Its wood is employed for black-lead pencils, and for lining the inside of desks; for which last purpose it is recommended both by its pleasant smell and by its property of driving away insects. There also grows the Tulip-tree t, the Arbutus and one of the two species of Arbor Vitce§ commonly cultivated here: the other species, of a looser growth, which comes from China |j, is often improperly called the Lignum, Vitce. The sort of hard * Juniperus Virginiana. j* Liriodendron tulipifera. X Arbutus laurifolia. § Thuja occidentals. || Thuja orientalis.
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