. 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 . h the lobes obtuse. a ^ooa „«J * oxyacantluEfdlia; A. oxyacanthaefolia LofW C«<., ed. [836; andour fig 1339.—Leaves sinuated and lobed; s
. 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 . h the lobes obtuse. a ^ooa „«J * oxyacantluEfdlia; A. oxyacanthaefolia LofW C«<., ed. [836; andour fig 1339.—Leaves sinuated and lobed; smaller than those of thepreceding variety, and somewhat resembling those of the common X A ; A. macrocarpa Lodd. Ca<., 1836 ; has the leavesand fruit rather larger than those of the species, and is also of morevigorous growth. 5 A. g. 7 foliis variegdtis Hort. has the leaves variegated. Other Varieties. There are some other names applied to plants in the col-lection of Messrs. Loddiges, which, we think, can only be considered asvarieties of A. glutinosa; or, perhaps, of A incana; but the plants are sosmall, that we are unable to determine whether they are sufficiently distinctto be worth recording. Among these names are, A. nigra, A. rubra, Aplicdta, and A. unduldta. A. rubra is said to be a native of the Island ofCha (Annal. des Scien. Nat., 3. p. 237.) Some of the sorts treated as CHAP. CIV. jBetulace^. ^LNUS. 1679. The bark, at the species we think only varieties, as we have indicated byputting the letter g. in parentheses. Description. The alder, in a wild state, even in favour-able situations, is seldom seen higher than 40 ft. or 50 ft.;but in uncultivated grounds, and in good soil near water,it will attain the height of 50 ft. or 60 ft., and is not only the case with the species, but with thevariety A. g. laciniata, which forms a handsome pyramidaltree; which, at Syon, has attained the height of 63ft.,and at Woburn Farm, near Chertsey,
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