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this time (February, 1827) the centre shoot produced is nearly 2 ft. high, andis furnished all round with three sets, or tiers, of regular horizontal branches. Imay add that this plant flowered with us in January, 1827, and was figuredin the Botanical Magazine, t. 2743. In 1826,1 repeated my experiment on theother plant with the very same success.” ( Gard. Mag.,\i. p. 410.)

Statistics. In the environs of London the largest plant is in the Hammersmith Nursery, whichis upwards of 10 ft. high, and would have been twice that height had it not been cut down, upwardsof 10 years ago, on account of its being too high for the house in which it then stood. At FulhamPalace, it is 5 ft. high ; and there are plants of about this height in the Horticultural Society's Garden,Messrs. Loddiges’s arboretum, Cheshunt, Bayfordbury, and various other places. Those at Clare-mont, and White Knights, have been already mentioned At Redleaf, it is 8 ft. 2 in. high. AtEdinburgh, in the Botanic Garden, it is 4ft. 6 in. high; and in the Experimental Garden, 2ft.6 in. high. In Ireland, there are plants in the different botanic gardens; and at Oriel Temple thereis one, which, in 1834, after being 12 years planted, was 7 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, rtt Laxen-burg, where it receives protection during winter, 5 years planted, it is 6 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza,10 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, one guinea each.

Genus VIII.

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DA'MMARA Rumph. The Dammar, or Amboyna, Pine. Lin. Syst.Monoe'cia Monadelphia.

Synonymes. Pinus Lamb.,

A'gathis Sal.

Derivation. From dam-mar , the name, in Am-boyna,of the resin whichit produces.

Description. Large,broad.leaved, evergreen,timber trees, aboundingin resin; natives of Am-boyna and New Zealand;and requiring, in England,the protection of a green-house.

* 1. D. orienta-lis Lamb. TheOriental DammarPine, or AmboynaPitch Tree .

Identification Lamb. Pin.,t. 34.

Synonymes. Pinus Dam -. mara Willd. Sp. PI., 4.p. 503., Lamb. Monog.,ed. 1 ., p. 32., Ait. Hort.

Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 321. ;

Ddmmara &lba Rumph.

Amboyn., 2. t. 57.; A ga-this foranthif&liaSflJ. inLinn. Trans. ,8. p. 312.,

Lindt, in Penn. Cyc .;

A. Ddmmara Rich.

Conif., p. 83. ; A'rborjavan^nsis, &c., RailHist., 3., Dendr. p. 130.

Engravings Lamb. Pin.,t. 54.; Lin. Trans., 8.

1.15.; Rich. Conif., t.

81.; Lamb. Monog.,ed. 1,, t. 38., and our^g.

2309. to our usual scale,and^g. 2308. to the na-tural size.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leavesopposite, oval-oblong,parallel-veined, attenu-ated at thebase. Conesturbinate; scales ad-pressed, round at theapex. (Lamb. Pin.) Aarge tree, a native of Amboyna. Introduced in 1804.escnption, %c. Rumphius describes it as a very tall tree, with a straight, upright, cylindrical

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