. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. FOREST TREES. 421 The Plane-tree (fig. 947) is sometimes confounded with the syca- more, but it is really a very different tree, and belongs to a difterent genus {Platanus). It is truly a noble tree. There are two species, P orientalis and P. occidentalism—both very similar,—but one has been imported from Europe or from the East of Asia, the other from America. The fruit—very unlike that ol the sycamore- is globulan and droops gracefully from a long stalk. The plane is
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. FOREST TREES. 421 The Plane-tree (fig. 947) is sometimes confounded with the syca- more, but it is really a very different tree, and belongs to a difterent genus {Platanus). It is truly a noble tree. There are two species, P orientalis and P. occidentalism—both very similar,—but one has been imported from Europe or from the East of Asia, the other from America. The fruit—very unlike that ol the sycamore- is globulan and droops gracefully from a long stalk. The plane is now the fashionable tree of the period, and is used ex- tensively in all our London Parks to replace the dying elms. It abounds in the gardens of our London squares. A good example is to be seen in Cheapside,. Fig. 947.—Plane-tree. at the corner of Wood Street, and a grand tree of P. occidentalis exists outside my garden, on ground in the occupation of Mr. Sheppey. An enormous P. orientalis exists in the grounds of Mr. Hayes, in Carshalton village, near running water. The Eastern may be known from the Western tree by its leaves being more deeply cut. The plane is a tree of the highest excellence where magnitude is required, but it has the one great disadvantage of coming into leaf late in spring. I have grown the A ilanthus glandulosa, which has large leaves with from nine to eleven leaflets. Experiments have been tried to raise the Bombyx cynthia on this tree, for its silk, but I believe up to this time without success in England. Amongst the most beautiful of ornamental trees, the Laburnum stands pre-eminent for the beauty of its flowers, which hang in pendent yellow blossoms so distinct and bright as to shine out and shed their lustre across the garden. It is such a favourite of mine, that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may n
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