. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXXVI. TAXA^CE^ : SALISBU^R/^. 945 and consisting of a rather globose calyx, contracted to a point, and then expanded into a narrow limb, and including an ovary. Calyx fleshy and persistent, becoming a drupaceous covering to a nut, which is rather egg- shaped, and very slightly compresse
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXXVI. TAXA^CE^ : SALISBU^R/^. 945 and consisting of a rather globose calyx, contracted to a point, and then expanded into a narrow limb, and including an ovary. Calyx fleshy and persistent, becoming a drupaceous covering to a nut, which is rather egg- shaped, and very slightly compressed. (G. Don.) Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous; deeply cut or lobed, alike on both surfaces, with long petioles. Flowers yellowish. — Tree deciduous, large, native of Japan, quite hardy in the climate of London, and of easy culture in common garden soil. Remarkable for the singularity of its leaves, which seem to unite Coniferae with the Corylaceae. Propagated by cuttings or layers in good loamy soils. t 1. S. ^DiANTiFO^LiA Smith. The Maiden-hair-leaved Salisburia, or Ginkgo Tree. Jdentificalion. Trans. Lin. Soc, 3. p. I I Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 472. Synonymes. Gi"gAo, Gm-fln, or/isjo, Ksmpf. Amoen., p 811.; Gm^o bllobaLin. ilfan^ ; Noyer du Japon, Arbre aux quarante E'cus, Fr.; Albero adianto, ttal. The Sexes. Both sexes are in the Kew Botanic Garden, in the Hackney Arboretum, and in our garden at Bayswater. Engravings. ^£empf. Amcen., p. 811. f.; Dend. Brit., t. 168. ; Jacquin Ueber den Ginkgo, t. 1.; the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit, 1st edit., vol. viii.; and our.;^5. 1757. and 1756. Spec. Char., S^c. See Gen. Char. A large conical deciduous tree. Japan and China. Height 60 ft. to 80 ft. Introduced in 1734. Flowers yel- lowish. Only those of the male yet seen in England. Decaying leaves yellow, or yellowish green. The male catkins, which appear with the leaves in May, on the wood of the preceding year or on old spurs, are sessile, about 1^ in.
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