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Statistics. Latirus Sassafras in England. In the environs of London , the largest tree is at Syon,where it is 40 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 8 in., and of the head 29 ft. At Kew, it is 40 ft.high. In the Fulham Nursery, it is 30 ft. high. In the Mile End Nursery, it is 21 ft. high. Southof London , in the Isle of Jersey, in Saunders’s Nursery, 14 years planted, it is 12 ft. high, the diameterof the trunk 9in., and of the head 9ft. In Kent, at Cobham Hall, 30 years planted, it is 50 ft. high,and the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 6 in. In Surrey, at St. Ann’s Hill, 30 years planted, it is 22 ft. high,the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 2 in., and of the head 12 ft. North of London, in Worcestershire , atCroome, 40 years planted, it is 25 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 9 in., and of the head 12 ft.

L. Sassafras in Scotland. In the Isle of Bute , at Mount Stewart, it is 10 ft. high, the diameter ofthe trunk 3 in., and of the head 5 ft.

L. Sassafras in Ireland. In the environs of Dublin , at Castletown, it is 28 ft. high, the di-ameter of the trunk lft. 6 in. North of Dublin, in Galway , at Coole, it is 19 ft. high, the diameterof the trunk 12 in., and of the head 22 ft. In Louth , at Oriel Temple, 12 years planted, it is 9 ft. high,the diameter of head 5 ft.

L. Sassafras in Foreign Countries. In France, at Sceaux , 10 years planted, it is 15 ft. high, thediameter of the trunk 8 in., and of the head 6 ft. In the neighbourhood of Nantes,24 years planted,it is 30 ft. high, with a trunk 2 ft. in diameter. In the Botanical Garden at Avranches , 29 yearsplanted, it is 20 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8 in., and of the head 12 ft. In Italy, in Lombardy ,at Monza , 12 years planted, it is 10 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8 in., and of the head 5 ft.

Commercial Statistics. Plants in the London nurseries, are 5s. each; andseeds 6s. a quart; at Bollwyller, plants are 2francs and 30 cents each; and atNew York , 25 cents.

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Identification. Lin. Hort. Cliff!, 154.; Gron. Virg., 46.; Mill. Diet. , No. 6.; Willd. Arb., 165.;waw. Sp. Pi., 2. p. 485.; Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836.

Synonymes. Arbor virginiana citrea? vel limonii folio, Benzoinum fundens, Comm. Hort., 1, p. 189.t. 97.; Xaurus aestivalis Wangh. Amer 87.; L. Pseddo- Benzdin Mich. FI. Amer., 1. p. 243.; L.Euosmus Benzoin Nutt. Gen., ]. p. 259.; Benzoin, sp. C. G. Nees Von Esenbeck ; Spice Bush, SpiceWood, or wild Allspice, Amer., according to.Nuttall; Laurier faux Benzoin, Fr.; Benzoin Lorbeer,Ger.

Engravings. Comm. Hort., 1.1. 97.; Pluk. Aim., t. 139. f. 34 ; and our fig. 1171.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves cuneate-obovate, entire, the under side whitish andpartly pubescent, deciduous. Sexes polygamous. Flowers in umbels.Buds and pedicels of the umbels glabrous. (Nutt. Gen., i. p. 259.) Leaveswithout nerves, ovate, acute at both ends.

( Willd. Sp. PI., ii. p. 485.) A deciduousshrub, a native of Virginia, where it growsto the height of 10 ft. or 12 ft. It was in-troduced in 1688, and is not unfrequent incollections. In British gardens, it forms arather tender peat-earth shrub, handsomefrom its large leaves, but seldom thriving,except/where the soil is kept moist and thesituation sheltered. The bark of L. Benzoinis highly aromatic, stimulant, and tonic,and is extensively used in North America in intermittent fevers. The oil of thefruitis said to be stimulant. ( Lindl. Nat. Syst.ofBot., on the information of Barton.) Thetrue Benjamin tree, or gum benzoin, isnot, as Ray supposed, this Lauras Benzdin,but a species of Ntyrax; as was first shownby the late Mr. Dryander, in the Philoso-phical Transactions for 1787, p. 307, t. 12. ( Rees’s Cyclop .) Lauras Benzdinis propagated from imported seeds, which require to be treated like thoseof Lauras Sassafras.

T b e . lar § est plant, in the neighbourhood of London , is at Ham House, where it is 15 ft.ric, ; at Von,it is 14 ft. high ; at Kew, 6 ft high; in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, 8 ft. high,in .ii* 86 -! at q e .stdean, 14 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. In Warwickshire , at Newnham Paddocks,, ; 1’, ars Planted, it is 5 ft. high. In Worcestershire , at Croome, 15 years planted, it is 15 ft. high ; ate ^rn ears Pl antet b R Is 6ft. high. In Ireland , at Oriel Temple, 12 years planted, it is ft ft.R - acrmany, near Vienna , at Briick on the Leytha, 25 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. Atplanted i”' 14 ft hM^ Ganien ’ 14 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza , 24 years