. A mygdalus communis,THE COMMON ALMOND-TREE. Synonymes. Amygdalus commmiis, Amandier, Blandelbaum, Mandorlo, Almendro, Amendoeira, Mindalnoe derevo, Almond-tree, LiNNjEus, Species Plantarum. De , Prodromus. Lo0DON, ArboreUim Britannicum. France. Germany. Italy. Spain. Portugal. Russia. Britain and Engravings. Du Hamel, TiaU6 dea Arbres et Arbustes, \v., pi. 29; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, vi., pi. 105; and thefigures Characters. Fruit a drupe; compressed and rather egg-shaped; the nut 2-ov


. A mygdalus communis,THE COMMON ALMOND-TREE. Synonymes. Amygdalus commmiis, Amandier, Blandelbaum, Mandorlo, Almendro, Amendoeira, Mindalnoe derevo, Almond-tree, LiNNjEus, Species Plantarum. De , Prodromus. Lo0DON, ArboreUim Britannicum. France. Germany. Italy. Spain. Portugal. Russia. Britain and Engravings. Du Hamel, TiaU6 dea Arbres et Arbustes, \v., pi. 29; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, vi., pi. 105; and thefigures Characters. Fruit a drupe; compressed and rather egg-shaped; the nut 2-ovuled, 1—2-seeded. Style terminal. Calyx deciduous, of a bell-shape ; flowers solitary. Leaves feather-nerved, undivided, oblong-lanceolate, serrate, with the lower serratures, or the petioles glanded. Stipules not attached to the petiole. Description, The hope, in dreams of a happier alights on miserys brow,Sprinss forth like the silvery almond flower,That blooms on a leafless boush. MOOKE. I^HE Corn-el Ir- [^ mon Almond,1)1 LI ^ when grafted ^ on the plum, in the central parts of Europe andNorth America, often attains a heightof twenty or thirty feet, with a trunkeight or ten inches in diameter; andeven in the neighbourhood of Paris, itis met with of an elevation of fortyfeet, and in Spain, Italy, and the southof France, it grows still higher. It isneither a hand


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