. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. CUT-LEAVED ALDER. Among the varieties of the Alder, the Al. g. laciniata,Cut-leaved Alder, forms one of the finest and handsomest,growing- with great vigour, and attaining a magnitudefully equal to that of the species ; most of the treesrecorded hy Loudon, (some of which are stated to heupwards of seventy feet high,) helong to this variety, andas it hears a foreign and uncommon aspect and is not 224 ALNUS. met with in a wild state in Britain, it may with pro-priety be introduced in artificial scenery, where a plantso common as the
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. CUT-LEAVED ALDER. Among the varieties of the Alder, the Al. g. laciniata,Cut-leaved Alder, forms one of the finest and handsomest,growing- with great vigour, and attaining a magnitudefully equal to that of the species ; most of the treesrecorded hy Loudon, (some of which are stated to heupwards of seventy feet high,) helong to this variety, andas it hears a foreign and uncommon aspect and is not 224 ALNUS. met with in a wild state in Britain, it may with pro-priety be introduced in artificial scenery, where a plantso common as the indigenous Alder would he quite outof WHITE, OR COMMON BIRCH. 225
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