. 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 . e unless on rich soil near water; though, as theroots creep along the surface, the soil need not be deep. Statistics. In England, in Buckinghamshi
. 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 . e unless on rich soil near water; though, as theroots creep along the surface, the soil need not be deep. Statistics. In England, in Buckinghamshire, at Temple House, 40 years planted, it is 70 ft. high ;the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 30 ft. ; in Durham, at Southend, 7 years planted, itis20fl. high ; in Hertfordshire, at Cheshunt, 18 years planted, it is 45 ft. high ; in , at Clumber Park, 10 years planted, it is 48 ft. high ; in Warwickshire, at Whitley Abbey,7 years planted, it is 24 ft. high. In Scotland, near Edinburgh, at the Experimental Garden, Inver-leith, 9 years planted, it is 23ft. high ; in Fifeshire, at Danibristle Park, 9 years planted, it is 23 ; in Stirlingshire, at Callender Park, 16 years planted, it is 70 ft. high In Ireland, at Dublin,in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, 30 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. In Germany, at Vienna, inthe garden of Baron Loudon, 30 years old, it is 24 ft. high. Price of plants as in P. ???S7 CHAP. CIV. ^ETULA^CE-E. ^LNUS. 1677 CHAP. CIV. OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER JSETULACEJE. These are included in two genera, the characters of which are thus given by Smith: — Ahtivs Tourn, Barren flowers numerous, aggregate, in a loose cjlin-drical catkin, imbricated every way. Calyx a permanent wedge-shapedscale, 3-flowered, with 2 very minute lateral scales. Corolla composed of3 equal florets, attached to the inner side of every scale, each of one petal,in 4 deep, equal, ovate, obtuse segments. Filaments 4, from the t
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