CHAP. CXIII.
CONi'fERiE. DA'MMARA.
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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., ii. 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 Kedleaf, 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 , at Laxen-burg, where it receives protection dufing winter, 5 years planted, it is 6 ft. high. In Italy , at Monza10 years planted, it is 20ft. high. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, one guinea each. *
Genus VIII.
DA'MMARA Rumph. The Dammar, or Amboyna, Pine. Lin. Syst.Monce'cia Monadelphia.
Synonymes. Pinus Lamb.,
A'gathis Sal.
Derivation. From dam-mar , the name, in Am-boyna,ofthe 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.
t 1. D. ORIENTA-LS Lamb. TheOriental DammarPine, or AmboynaPitch Tree.
Identification Lamb. Pin.j
ot.
Synonymes. Plnus Dam-
mara Willd. Sp. PI., 4.P- 603., Lamb. Monog.,fh l.| p. 32., Ait. Hort.Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 321. ;Ddmmara 61ba Rumph.Amboyn. > < Z,\,. 57.; A ga-sh's foranthifblia Sal. inl.inn. Trans., 8. p. 312.,Ltndl. in Penn. Cyc. \A. Ddmmara Rir>h
. VU "».| p. oo. ; A'rborjavan^nsis, &c., RatiHist., 3 ., Dendr. p. 130.^ravings Lamb. Pin.,t- 54.; Lin. Trans., 8.£15. • Rich. Conif., t.Lamb. Monog.,«A1., t3S.,andour^.woy. to our usual scale,antUg. 2308. to the na-
2308
Introduced in 1804.
as^a very tall tree, with a straight, upright, cylindrical