CHAP. CXII,

TAXA'CEAS,

SALISBU MA.

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which may be chosen, and trained so as to form a handsome erect tree. Itmay be worthy of notice, that the two male trees which flowered first inEngland were trained against walls, and that the flowers appeared only insmall quantities, at the extremity of the longest branches. It also deservesnotice, that the tree in the Strasburg Botanic Garden, which, when we saw itin 1828, had flowered for several years in succession, was not above 20 ft.high : but it had been almost entirely shaded by a large poplar tree; and theflowers were only produced on the extremity of one branch, which hadstretched out to the light. The same may be said of the tree which floweredin a garden adjoining the Mile End Nursery, which had the farther stimulusof the bark of the trunk having been so much injured for some years beforeas to operate like ringing. The grafting of the salisburia may be performedin the splice manner, and, apparently, with as much facility as m graftingapple trees; and, hence, every possessor of a male tree may add a female toit if he chooses.

Statistics. In the environs of London, a tree at Purser’s Cross, planted in 1767, was, in 1837, up-wards of 60 ft. high; another tree near it is upwards of 50 ft. high. In the Mile End Nursery areseveral trees, the highest of which (figured in our last Volume) was, in 1834, 57ft. high, with a trunk3 ft. in diameter; and in 1837 it had gained 3 ft. in height. In the grounds of an adjoining villa, thereis a tree between 30ft. and 40 ft. high, which has grown all to one side, in consequence of the pres-sure of other trees. This tree produced abundance of male blossoms in May, 1835, and is now (June5. 1837) also in flower. In the Kcw Garden there are some male trees trained against walls, oneof which has flowered several times (see p. 2096.); and a female tree, received from Professor Do Can-dolle, in 1818., but which has not yet flowered. In our garden in Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, is amale tree, with a female grafted on its summit, which is now (1837) upwards of 15 ft. high. At HamHouse Essex, is a male tree, trained against the front of the house, which flowered about 1796, and is33 ft. high. At Leyton, inthe grounds of Robert Barclay, Esq., 16 years planted, it is 18 ft. high.—Southof London. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 30 years planted, it is 24 ft. high. In Somersetshire,at Leigh Park, it is 40 ft. high, the circumference of the trunk 5 ft., and the diameter of the head30 ft. — North of London. In Gloucestershire, at Doddington Park, 26 years planted, it is IK ft.high, the diameter of the trunk 10 in., and that of the head 45 ft—In Scotland, in Forfarshire, atKinnaird Castle, 30 years planted, it is 22 ft. high.— In France, in the Jardin des Plantes, 50 yearsold, it is 55 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 4 in., and of the head 25 ft. At Avranches, inthe Botanic Garden, 19 years old, it is 6 ft. 6in. high.—In Holland, at Utrecht, the tree alreadymentioned, p. 2095., is 33 ft. 2 in. high, with a trunk 1 ft. Gin. in diameter at 1ft. from the groundProfessor Kops informs us, in a letter dated December 7. 1835, that it is a branchy tree, and stillcontinues to grow vigorously. He adds that, when he succeeded to the directorship of the garden,in 1816, it was then calculated to be between 70 and 30 years of age ; and, hence, it must now (1837)be between 90 and 100 years old ;and, if so, it must have been plantedat Utrecht before the tree was in-troduced into England. At Leyden,there is a salisburia, which, in 1817,the deputation of the CaledonianHorticultural Society considered asa few feet taller than the specimenin the Mile End Nursery was at thattime; which last-mentioned treewas, when seen by the deputationin 1817, above 30 ft. high, and wasconsidered, as it still is, the finesttree of its kind in the neighbour-hood of London. The Leyden treewas inferior to the English one,however, in point of handsomenessand shapeliness. “ Indeed, it hadbeen crowded and overgrown bysome ordinary forest trees; and thegardener seemed to pride himself onits transference, some years ago, toits present situation. There wasdoubtless merit in safely removingso large a plant; but the choice ofits new place is far from beinghappy, a large common ash hereovershadowing it; than which it isnot easy to conceive any thing moreprejudicial. It yields its flowersevery season.” ( Hort. Tour , p. 159.)

Professor Reinwardt, the presentdirector of the Leyden BotanicGarden, kindly sent us a beautifulportrait of this tree, taken in 1836,of whichjfg-. 1994. is an engraving,reduced to the scale of 1 in. to 12ft.

It was then 41 ft. high, and the cir-cumference of the trunk, at 1ft.from the ground, was 4 ft. 6 in.—InBelgium, in the park at Liicken,near Brussels, there is a salisburia23 ft. high.—In Germany, in Aus-

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