. 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 . hauxadds, if laid open in spring, will change, in a few minutes, to green, from a purewhite. The only uses to which the wood is applied, in Americ
. 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 . hauxadds, if laid open in spring, will change, in a few minutes, to green, from a purewhite. The only uses to which the wood is applied, in America, is forshingles, for the bottoms of chairs, and for baskets; for which it is admirablyadapteil, from its lightness, facility to split, and elasticity. The plants of thiskind of teltis, in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges (where it is named (.cordata), are quite small ; and from their appearance we should judge it tobe only a variety of f. occidentalis, though, according to Michauxs figure(of which^^. 1254. is a reduced copy), the two sorts are very distinct. SltUislics. Ill Cheshire, at Eaton Hall, a tree, 13 years phinted, is 15 ft. high. In Durham, atSouth End, 6 years planted, it is lift. Iiigh. Near Dublin, at Terenure, lU voars planted, it isSft. high. In Austria, at Kriick on the Leytha, 12 years planted, it is •Mthigii. In Iximbardy,at Monica, 24 years planted, it is 35 ft. high; diameter of the trunk 7 in., and of ine head 2U It. 1420 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. « 8. C. L^viGA^TA Willd. The glabrous-fcoved Celtis, or Nettle Tree. Identification. Willd. Enum. Suppl, p. 68. j Willi Baumz., p. 81.; Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg.,6. p. 306. Synonyme. Sprengel has suggested, in the Index to his Syst. Veg., that glabrkta is the epithet fitterfor this species than Ijevigata : glabrata signifies rendered, or become, bald; Iteuigata, renderedperfectly even in surface. Spec. Char.,^c. Leaves , subcordate at the base, nearly entire; glabrous on theupper
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