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which are ripe in September, and remain on the tree as long as the leaves,and frequently till the following spring.

Statistics. In the environs of London , the largest trees are those at Syon, one of which is S3 ft.high, with a trunk 11 in. in diameter, and a fine round head 17 ft. in diameter. At Kew, a maleplant, near the palace, is 25 ft. high. In Oxfordshire, at Oxford, in the Botanic Garden , 10 yearsplanted, it is 15 ft. high. In Rutlandshire , at Belvoir Castle, 18 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. InSuffolk, at Ampton Hall, 12 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. In Yorkshire , in the Hull BotanicGarden, 10 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. In Scotland, in Banffshire , at Huntley Lodge, 12 yearsplanted, it is 20 ft high. In Argyllshire, at Toward Castle, 13 years planted, it is 14 ft. high. InSutherlandshire, at Dunrobin Castle, 13 years planted, it is 5 ft. high. In Ireland , in the GlasnevinBotanic Garden, Dublin, 30years planted, it is 12 ft. high ; at Cypress Grove, Dublin , it is 15ft. high.In the King’s County, at Charleville Forest, 10 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. In Galway , at Coole,it is 28 ft. high. In Louth, at Oriel Temple, 25 years planted, it is 19 ft. high. In Sligo , at MakreeCastle, 10 years planted, it is 5 ft. high. In France, near Paris, at Sceaux , 10 years planted, it is 15 ft.high j in the Botanic Garden at Avranches, 10 years planted, it is 16 ft. high. In Germany , inHanover, at Harbke, 6 years planted, it is 5 ft. high. In Saxony, at Worlitz , 46 years planted, it is20ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the Botanic Garden , 24 years planted, it is 18 ft. high.In Austria, near Vienna , at Briick on the Leytha, 40 years planted, it is 16 ft. high. In Prussia,near Berlin, at Sans Souci, 20 years planted, it is 16 ft high. In Sweden, at Stockholm , in the Govern-ment Garden, 15 years planted, it is 7 ft. high. In Russia, in the Crimea , where, according toDescemet, it is employed, as in some parts of France , to fix drifting sands, and protect the seeds ofPlnus Pinaster, which are sown on them, it grows with great vigour. In Italy, at Monza , nearMilan , 21 years planted, it is 12 ft. high.

Varieties.

i a IT. 11. 2 angustifblia Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836; seethe plate of this treein our last Volume, which is a portrait of a tree, of the female sex, inMessrs. Loddiges’s arboretum, taken in October, 1834. Its leavesare obviously more narrow than those of the species; the youngbranches are pendulous ; and the tree is highly ornamental. Thereare plants, both of the male and of the female of this variety, inthe Horticultural Society’s Garden, and in the collection of Messrs.Loddiges.

¥ si. II. R. 3sibirica, H. sibirica Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836, appears to differvery little, if at all, from the species; but, the plant not being in ahealthy state, it may be more distinct than we suppose it to be. Amale plant of H. Rhamnoides in the London Horticultural Society’sarboretum, which flowered in 1835, had its flower buds smaller andearlier in blossom than those of the other; and this, perhaps, maybe H. R. sibirica; the plants of species which are common toSiberia, and the west of Europe , always flowering earlier in thiscountry than plants of the same species which are indigenous to it,or to Central Europe generally.

Description, tf-c. In its wild state, the sea buckthorn, sallowthorn, or wil-lowthorn, rises, with ligneous stems, to the height of 8 ft. or 10 ft.; but, in astate of culture, and when trained to a single stem, it grows twice or thrice thatheight. Its branches are numerous, irregular,and covered with a brown bark. The flowers aresmall, solitary, and appear before the leaves, orcoeval with them. The berries are produced onthe female plant in great abundance, when themale plant stands near it, but not otherwise.

There is said to be a variety with red berrieswhich Miller saw on the sand-banks in Holland ;but we have not heard of its being in cultivation.

The species is found wild in England, upon cliffsabove the level of the sea, from Kent to York-shire ; and is plentiful between Yarmouth andCromer, on the flat sandy coast. In Russia , itis found in low, wet, and sandy situations, moreparticularly in the subalpine districts aboutCaucasus; and it is abundant throughout greatpart of Tartary. “ fiippophae Rhamnoidesgrows m profusion all along the course of theofth ’ ant iP e '^phila (Sphinx) hippdphaes is now so plentiful, in consequencee numbers of it collected and bred by the peasants, that a specimen costs

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