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PART III

tria, at Vienna, in the garden at Schonbrunn, and also in that of M. Pernold, there are severatmale salisburias, from 40 ft. to 50 ft. high, which flower every year. The oldest of these was the treeoriginally planted in the garden at Schonbrunn by Francis I. (See p. 2096.) In the Botanic Gardenat Carlsruhe, there is a tree 60 ft. high, which has not yet flowered. In Brunswick, at Harbke, thereis a tree, 70 years planted, and only 20 ft. high. In Switzerland, the female tree at Bourdigny (see1 ». 2096.) was kindly measured for us in April, 1835, by M Alphonse De Candolle; and, according tohis communication in the Gardener's Magazine, vol. xi., it was then from 12 ft. to 15 ft. high, with atrunk exactly 4ft. in circumference at 18 in. from the ground ; and the diameter of the space^coverod bythe branches was 25 ft—In Italy, in Lombardy, at Monza, 24 years planted, the male is 26 ft. high,the circumference of the trunk 2 ft, and the diameter of the head 18 ft.; there is also a female, 10years old, which is only 3 ft. high. A female tree, in another garden near Milan, has flowered. Inthe Botanic Garden at Pavia, a tree, measured by the Abbe Berleze, in 1832, was 60 ft. high. Thismust be the finest tree in Italy, as that of Montpelier is the finest in France ; that of Carlsruhe thefinest in Germany ; that of Leyden the finest in Holland ; and that of the Mile End Nursery thefinest in England.—In North America, at Woodlands, near Philadelphia, there is a tree 54 ft. high,with a trunk 3 ft. 10in. in circumference at 2ft. from the ground; there are also two other trees inthe same garden, but not one of them has ever flowered. These trees were brought to America, byMr, Hamilton, in 1784. (See Gard. Mag., xii. p. 378.)

Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are from 1«. Gd. to5s. each, according to the size; female plants, 5s. each. At Bollvvyller, plantsare 5 francs each; and at New York, 2 dollars.

App. I. Half-hardy Genera belonging to the Order Taxdcecc.

Podocdrpus L’H6rit. is nearly allied to Tfixus, and so much resembles that genus, both in itsleaves and fruit that it has not been long separated from it. The species are tall trees, natives ofChina, Japan, the East Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, South America, and New Holland. Abouta dozen species have been introduced into England, which are almost atways kept in the green-house or stove ; but some have been found to stand the open air in the climate of London, with veryslight protection.

P. macrophyllus Swt., Lamb, 2d ed. 2., p. 843.; T macrophyila Thun. Jap., 276., Smith in Pecs'sCycl ., No. 6.; the long-leaved Japan yew; has the leaves scattered, pointless, spreading every way, andthe fruit stalked. Common in Japan, where it is a large and stout tree, the wood;of which is valued forcabinet-work, not being liable to the attacks of insects. It is a native of Japan, and was introducedinto the Kew Gardens in 1804. There are plants at Messrs. Loddiges’s, and in various collections,which are usually kept in green-houses or cold-pits; but there is a plant in the Horticultural So-ciety's Garden, which wa9 planted in 1832 in an angle where two walls meet, and is now (1837)between 2 ft. and 3 ft. high.

P. lattfdlius Wall.

Plant. Asiat. Bar., 1. p.

26. t. 30., and our Jig.

1995., has the leavesovate-lanceolate, muchpointed, and opposite.

Male catkins fascicled,axillary, on a commonpeduncle. Nut globose;receptacle narrow, co-vered with scatteredbracteas. An evergreentree of the middle size.

Leaves about 5 in. long,and 1 in. broad : palebeneath. {Wall.) Anative of the mountainsof Pundna, flowering inMarch, and ripening itsfruit towards the end ofthe year. It is calJedSop-loug by the natives. Dr.

Wallich observes, thisspecies “is very dis-tinct from P. macro,phyllus in size, figure,and insertion of its

leaves, and in its fascicled aments. Both species arc found on the same lofty range of mountains> ruering on the eastern parts of Bengal, not far from the district of Silhet.” (See Tentamen FloreeNcpalcnsis ittuslraUe, 1 . p. 56 .)

I Ztfr 16 ™ Spren s cl ; P. excelsus Lodd. Cat., cd. 1836; T. spinultea Smith in Rees's Cucl, No. 7.;nas the leaves partly opposite, or whorled, and lanceolate; spinous-pointed, and spreading everyway. it is a native of Port Jackson, and there is a plant in the Botanic Garden at Kew, againsta west wail, which has stood there without protection since 1830, and is now 3 ft. high.

l . nacifer Persoon; T. nuclfera Kampf Amcen. Ex., p. 815., icon., Smith in Rees's Cycl ., No. 5.,

f ?h e c ^ tl 10 leaves 2-ranked, distant, lanceolate, pointed, and but half the lengthot the truit; and the foliage and habit of the plant strongly resemble those of a deciduous cypress,l'requent, according to-Ktcmpfer, in the northern provinces of Japan, where it forms a lofty tree,

n* man y.®RP° s l to scaly branches, found also on mountains in Nepal and Kamaon. The wood islignt. An oil is made from the kernel of the nut, which is said to be used for culinary purposes, though♦! > L?™!- I f % t0 ° astr i n gent to be eaten. This species was introduced in 1420, and is, perhaps,the hardiest of the genus; a plant having stood out in open ground in the Goldworth Arboroturn since 183J, which is now 4 ft. high. It is also at Messrs. Ixjddigcs’s. In 1834 there was a treeot this species at White Knights, which was 13 ft. high.