. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. in rather anexposed situation, on a raised mound, inwhich the tree delights. The soil is loam,with a small portion of poor peat, and theplant has never been watered, even in thehottest season we have had. A wetsub-soil is certain death to the Araucaria in Fig. 120. Branch of the Araucaria, or Chili Pine, one-sixthof the natural size. at Kew Garden, England, taken in 1838,when it was only 12 feet high. We also addfrom the London Horticultural Magazine,the following memorandum respecting atree at Dropynore, taken last summer,(1846.)
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. in rather anexposed situation, on a raised mound, inwhich the tree delights. The soil is loam,with a small portion of poor peat, and theplant has never been watered, even in thehottest season we have had. A wetsub-soil is certain death to the Araucaria in Fig. 120. Branch of the Araucaria, or Chili Pine, one-sixthof the natural size. at Kew Garden, England, taken in 1838,when it was only 12 feet high. We also addfrom the London Horticultural Magazine,the following memorandum respecting atree at Dropynore, taken last summer,(1846.) The following is the height and di-mensions of the finest specimen we haveof this noble tree, and probably the largestin Europe ; height 22 feet 6 inches ; diam-eter of the spread of branches near theground, 10 feet 6 inches ; girth of the stemnear the ground, 2 feet 10 inches ; five feetabove the ground, 2 feet. The tree has madea rapid growth this season, and promises toget a foot higher, or more, before autumn ;it is about 16 vears old, and has never had. Fig. 121. The Chili Fine, or Araucania tree. very wet seasons. A plant here, from acutting, made a leading shoot in the year1833, and is now 19 feet 6 inches in height,and has every appearance of making asplendid plant. In Scotland, also, it stands without theslighest protection, and Ave have before us,in the Revue Horticole, an account of aplantation of these trees at Brest, in thenorth of France, a climate very much likeour own. The soil is a light sandy loam,poor and ihin. Yet the trees, fully exposed,or sheltered only by a small belt of pines,have proved perfectly hardy, resistino-with-out injury, even the rigorous winter of 1829-30, when the thermometer was several de-grees below zero of Fahrenheit. The largest 542 KSrALIER TRAINING. now measures about 20 feel in height. Itscircles or tiers of branches, are five in num-ber, disposed at perfectly equal distances,and closely resembling, in effect, a magnifi-cent pyramid.
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