. 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 . ire; and its solitaryvery white fruit. It is, he adds, a real monster (un vt^ritable monstre, niais qui se propage toujoursle mfme). We have littl
. 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 . ire; and its solitaryvery white fruit. It is, he adds, a real monster (un vt^ritable monstre, niais qui se propage toujoursle mfme). We have little doubt of its being only a variety of M. alha. Du Hamels description andthat of Bosc agree in every particular, except the colour of the fruit. According to M. Madiot, inthe Journal de la Sociiti! dAgriculture Pratique, M. a. piimila (p. 1350.) was obtained from seeds ofM. (a.) constantinopolitana. Plants of M. constantinopolit.^na, in the BoUwyller Nursery, are 3francs each ; at New York, 50 cents. S 4. M. (a.) tatarica Pal. The Tartarian Mulberry Tree. Identification. Pall. Fl. Ross , 2. p. 9. t. 52.; Lin. Sp. PI., 1399,; Mill. Diet., No. 7.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. Pall. Fl. Ross., 2. t. 52.; and our fig. 1225.; both sprigs taken from one tree. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves with a shallow scallop at the base, and eitherheart-shaped, ovate, or lobed; serrated with equal teeth, smooth; the pro- LIIAI. C. rUTlCA CEJE. .VOMIUS. 1359. 122o jecting portions beside the sinus equal. Very closely akin to M. alba L., and, pcr- liaps, originally proilnccd from that species. It inhabits places inundated by the waters of the rivers Wolga and Ta- nais, or Don. (IVilld. Spec, Pi.,\v. p. 369.) A deciduous tree, growing to the height of 20 ft.; and introduced in 1784. In the American Si/A- Groivcrs Guide, it is stated that the fruit is black, and resembles that oi21. nigra. Gerber, also, says that it is black. Pallas speaks of it as reddish or [)ale, of no good Havour, though it is
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