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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

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largest we know of, however, (of which Jig. 1937. is a portrait, taken in May,1837,) stands in the grounds of Lambeth Palace, adjoining a magnificentspecimen of P. occidentalis ; it is 90 ft. high, with a trunk 4 ft. 6 in. in dia-meter. The platanus, when of not more than 50 or 60 years’ growth, stolesreadily when cut down to the ground, and, when so treated, will make shootsin one season of 6 ft. or 8 ft., or even more, in length.

Geography. The Oriental plane is a native of Greece, and of other partsof the Levant: it is found in Asia Minor, and Persia, where, according toRoyle, it extends as far south as Cashmere. (Must.) According to Pallas,it is doubtful whether it is indigenous to Georgia, though there are trees of itthere, with trunks 12 ft. in circumference, and of a great height. On MountCaucasus, it is not much higher than a shrub. It is found on the coast ofBarbary, as it is in the south of Italy, and in Sicily; but is probably not in-digenous to those countries. (See History.) On Mount Etna, it is found ashigh as 2000 ft. above the level of the sea. It is not a gregarious tree, seldomgrowing in extensive masses; and the inviduals, when of large size, are alwaysfound on plains, and in a light deep soil, not far from water. Olivier tells usthat it is common on the banks of the rivulets in Greece, in the islands ofthe Archipelago, and on the coast of Asia Minor; but he never found it ofa large size, except in good soil near water.