. Rural essays. Gardening; Architecture, Domestic; Landscape architecture; Trees. RARE EVERGREEN TREES. 325 We bowow from the Arboretum Britannicum, an engraving one- sixth of tlie size df nature, showing the young branch and leaves (fig. 4), aad also another (fig. 5), which is a portrait of a specimen growing at Kew Garden, England, taken in 1838, when it was only twelve feet high. We also add, from the London Horticul- tural Magazine, the following memorandum respecting a tree at Dropmore, taken last summer (1846). "The following is the height and dimensions of the finest specimen we ha
. Rural essays. Gardening; Architecture, Domestic; Landscape architecture; Trees. RARE EVERGREEN TREES. 325 We bowow from the Arboretum Britannicum, an engraving one- sixth of tlie size df nature, showing the young branch and leaves (fig. 4), aad also another (fig. 5), which is a portrait of a specimen growing at Kew Garden, England, taken in 1838, when it was only twelve feet high. We also add, from the London Horticul- tural Magazine, the following memorandum respecting a tree at Dropmore, taken last summer (1846). "The following is the height and dimensions of the finest specimen we have of this noble tree, and, pro-, blably the largest in Europe: height 22 feet 6 inches; di- ameter of the spread of branches, near the ground, 10 feet 6 inches ; girth of the' stem near the ground, 2 feet 10 inches; five feet above the ground, 2 feet. The tree has made a rapid growth this season, and pro- mises to get a foot higher, or more,, before autumn; it is about sixteeti yea:rs old, and has never had the least protection; it stands in rather an exposed situation, on a raised mound, in which the tree delights. The soil is loam, with a small portion of poor peat, and the plant has never been watered, even in the hottest season'we have had. A wet subsoil is certain death to the araucaria in very wet seasons. A plant here, from a cutting, made, a leading shoot in the year 1833, now 19 feet 6 inches in height, and has every appearance of mating a splendid ; In Scotland, also, it stands without the slightest protection, and we have before us, in the Revue Hbrticole, an account of a planta-. Fig. 4—Branch of the Arauoaris, or Chili Pine, one- sixth of the natural 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 not perfectly resemble the original Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852; Curtis, George William, 182
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