. 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 . r. 15 c/ihicnsis ; U. chinensis Pcrs.,\. p. 291. No. 9., Vcg.,\\. p. 303.; The de IAbbe Gallois, Orme nain, Fr.; andour Jig.
. 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 . r. 15 c/ihicnsis ; U. chinensis Pcrs.,\. p. 291. No. 9., Vcg.,\\. p. 303.; The de IAbbe Gallois, Orme nain, Fr.; andour Jig. 1231.; is a low bush, introduced from China, j^™,but when is uncertain. Notwithstanding the circum-stance of its being kept in green-houses in some cases,and retaining its leaves there through the winter, wecannot consider it as anything else than a variety ofU. campestris. We are confirmed in this opinion byMr, Main, who brought home some plants of this sortfrom China, and found them stand the rigour of ourwinters in the garden of his friend, the Rev. of Grove Street, Hackney. (See (iard. Mng.,vol. ii. p. 139.) We believe it to be the same sortwhich is sometimes imported from China, in the formof a miniature old tree, planted in a China retained in these vases, and sparingly suppliedwith nourishment, it maintains its stunted figure; but,planted out in the free soil, in a favuurable situation, in ;i \ear oi two1- X 2. 1378 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. TART 111. it will make shoots 5 ft. or 6 ft. long, as may be seen in the garden ofthe London Horticultural Society. The manner in which the Chineseprocure these miniature trees is, by ringing the extremities of thebranches of old trees, and then applying a ball of loam, kept moistby water and moss, till roots are thrown out from the callosityformed at the ring ; when the small branch is cut off, and plantedin a porcelain pot,either, says Mr. Main, round, or, most commonly,an elongated square, 12 in. or 14 in.
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