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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART HI.

dicellate. Corollaabout equal in. lenj

shrub, with long slender shoots, and prone to throwup innumerable suckers; a native of the south ofEurope , where it grows to the height of from 10 ft.to 12 ft.; flowering from May till August. It wasintroduced in 1730, and is common in British gardens;where it ‘s valuable for covering naked walls, as itgrows with extreme rapidity, and flowers and fruitsfreely, in almost any soil or situation. Establishedplants, in good soil, will make shoots 10 ft. or 12 ft.in length in one season; and the plant, when trainedagainst a house or high wall, will reach the height of30 it. or 40 ft., as may be seen in some courts inParis . Trained to a strong iron rod, to the heightof 20 ft. or 30 ft., and then allowed to spread over anumbrella head, it would make a splendid bower. Itsshoots would hang down to the ground, and form acomplete screen on every side, ornamented from topto bottom with ripe fruit, which is large, and brightscarlet or yellow ; with unripe fruit, which is of alurid purple; or with blossoms, which are purpleand white. Some idea of the quantity of ripe andunripe fruit, and of blossoms, which may be found ona shoot at one time, may be formed from jig. 1108.,which is only a portion of a shoot, the upper part ofwhich (not exhibited in the figure) contained two orthree dozen of fruit, all ripe at once. If it were re-quired to open the sides of a bower covered withthis plant, the shoots could be tied together so asto form columns, at regular distances all round: butthey must be untied in an hour or two afterwards,to prevent the shoots in the interior of the columnfrom being heated so as to cause them to drop theirleaves and fruit. Price of plants, in the London nur-series, from 6 d. to Is. each; at Bollwyller, 30 cents ;and at New York. 37J cents.

Varieties. There is a variety with yellow fruit, andanother with the fruit roundish; and, in our opinion,L. barbarum, chinense, ruthenicum, Shawi, and Tre-w ianum, ail which we have seen in Loddiges’s arbo-retum ; and, probably, other sorts which we have notseen, are nothing more than variations of the sameform.

1 2. L. (e.) ba'rbarum L. TheBarbary Box Thorn.

Identification. Irn. Sp., 277. ; Willd. Sp., 4.p. 1059., exclusive of thesynonymes of Shawand Lam.: Don’s Mill., 4. p. 458.: Lodd.

Cat, ed. 1836.

Synonymes. L. ^alimifftlium Mill. Diet, No.

6.; L. b&rbarum « vulgare Ait. Hort. Kew.,

1. p. 257. Sckkuhr Handb., 1. p. 147. t. 46.,

Hayne Term. Bot ., t. 10. f. 5., Du Ram.

Arb., 1. p. 306. t. 121. f. 4., Mich. Gen., t.

105. f. 1.; the Duke of Argyll’s Tea Tree .

Engravings. Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 9.: andouryzg. 1109.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Branches depend-ent. Buds spiny. Leaves lan-ceolate, flat, glabrous, acute.

Flowers twin, extra-axillary, pe-

funnel-shaped. Stamens exserted,

th to the limb. Branches angular.