. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . Young shoots spotted ^with dark purple. Leaves 6—10 in. marginate. Flowers pendulous,forming terminal cross-armed panicles,large, of
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . Young shoots spotted ^with dark purple. Leaves 6—10 in. marginate. Flowers pendulous,forming terminal cross-armed panicles,large, of a tawn^ orange colour on theoutside, and of a tolerably bright red-dish orange colour inside, with brighterstreaks. Nectary a glandular crenatedring. Anterior lobe of stigma recurved.(Bons Mill., iv. p. 225.) A climbingshrub, a native of China and in 1800, and flowering in July and August. This species,when first introduced, was thought to be rather tender; but it is nowfound to be almost as hardy as Tecoma radicans, which it greatly re-sembles, but is of a slighter habit, though it has much larger flowers, andis altogether a very splendid plant. There is a fine specimen at Kew, infront of one of the stoves; a large one in the Horticultural Societys Garden,which has stood against the conservative wall there since 1825; and oneagainst the wall in the Hackney arboretum. Price of plants, in the Londonnurseries, 2s. 6d. CHAl. LXXIX. BIGNON/y4 CE^. CATALPA. 1261 App. I. Half-hardy ligneous Plants belonging to the OrderBig?ioji\aceae. BigTidnii crucigera Plum. Icon., t. 58., has the leaflets large; the flowers yellow, and whitishbeneath; and the follicles, or pods. 1 ft long. A transverse section of the stem represents a cross; and hence the trivial name. It is a climbing shrub, a native of Virginia, Mexico, &c.; and was introduced in 1759. Perhaps it might be grafted or inarched on B. capreo- l^ta; and, if .so, it might then be tried against a conservative
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