. 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 . 1291. be somctnncs very cultivator CHAP. CIH. 5ALICAcE^. SA^LIX. 1483 moist ground, highly favourable in itself for tlie growth of osiers, planted
. 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 . 1291. be somctnncs very cultivator CHAP. CIH. 5ALICAcE^. SA^LIX. 1483 moist ground, highly favourable in itself for tlie growth of osiers, planted it ;and, after a few jcars, the osiers had disappeared, he hardly knew was planted a second and even a third time, and the plants always dis-appeared. My attention, says the writer, being now strongly drawnto the subject, I discovered that which I ought to have perceived half acentury sooner; namely, that Nematus ciiprese, favoured by the [)eculiar lo-cality, was the cause of all this devastation. The spot is low, moist, shutin by wood, and very near the southern limit of England. The species ofwillow planted was chiefly one of those with broad leaves, woolly underneath(probably S. caprea L.). The warmth of the situation, and the nidus for eggsafforded by these woolly leaves, were, I presume, the combined cause of theinsect being so remarkably attracted to this spot. Some of the plants wereof a species with smooth narrow leaves (probably S
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