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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III,

Bagshot Park, 12 years planted, it is 20 ft high. In Berkshire, at White Knights, 34 years planted,it is 25 ft high. In Buckinghamshire , at Temple House, 40 years planted, it is 16 ft. high. In Essex,at Braybroke, 51 years planted, it is 35ft. high. In Nottinghamshire , at Clumber Park, it is 30 ft.high, the diameter of the trunk 14 ft., and of the head 22 ft. In Radnorshire, at Maeslaugh Castle,it is 30ft. high, the diameter of the trunk l$ft., and of the head 15 ft In Shropshire , at Kinlet,60 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. In Staffordshire , at Teddesley Park, 14 years planted, it is 16 ft.high; at Rolleston Hah, 50 years planted, it is 25 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of thehead 10 ft. In Suffolk, at Finborough Hall, 70 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. In Worcestershire ,

at Croome, 40 years planted, it is 20 ft. high_In Scotland. In the environs of Edinburgh , at

Gosford House, 80 years planted, it is 20ft. high ; at Hopetoun House, it is 35 ft. high. In Banff ,shire, at Gordon Castle, it is 30ft. bigb. In Berwickshire, at the Hirsel, 30 years planted, it is 21 fthigh. In Haddingtonshire , at Tynningbam, 72 years old, it is 17$ ft. high. In Perthshire, atInverary, it is 28 ft. high ; at Taymouth, 50 years planted, it is 36 ft. high ; at Perth , in the nurseryof Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull, 22 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. In Ross-shire, at BrahanCastle, 30 years planted, it is 20 ft high. In Stirlingshire, at Airthrey, 43 years planted, it is 30 ft.high, the diameter of the head 18 ft— In Ireland. In the environs of Dublin , in the GlasnevinBotanic Garden, 30 years planted, it is 16 ft. high; and at Cypress Grove, 20 years planted, it is18 ft. high. In King’s County , at Charleville Forest, 25 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. In theCounty Down, at Ballyleady, 22 years planted, it is 16 ft high. In Fermanagh , at Florence Court,50 years planted, it is 26 ft. high. In Louth , at Oriel Temple, 30 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. —In France, near Paris , at Sclaux, 10 years planted, it 20 ft. high— In Hanover, in the GottingenBotanic Garden, 25 years planted, and from 30 ft. to 40 ft. high. — In Austria, at Vienna , in theUniversity Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, it is 36 ft. high ; at Laxenburg , 25 years planted,it is 20ft. high; at Bruckon the Leytha, 40 years planted, it is 30ft. high. — In Prussia, at Berlin ,at Sans Souci, 90 years planted, it is 14 ft high ; in the Pfauen-Insel, 40 years planted, it is 14ft.high. — In Sweden, at the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 20 ft. high. — In Italy, at Monza , 24 yearsplanted, it is 18 ft. high.

Commercial Statistics Seeds, in London, 4s. per lb. Plants, in the London nurseries, are from 6 d. to Is. each ; at Bollwyller, 1 franc; and at New York ,50 cents.

f « 2. T. (o.) puca'ta Donn. The plicate, or Nee’s, Arbor Vitae.

Identification, Donn Hort. Cantab., 6. p. 249.; Lamb. Pin. ed. 2., 2. No. 61.; Lodd. Cat. ,ed. 183a

Spec. Char., S,c. Branchlets compressed, spreading. Leaves rhomboid-ovate,acute, adpressed, imbricated in 4 rows, naked, tuberded in the middle.Cones oblong, nodding. Seeds obcordate, {Lamb. Pin.) A native ofMexico, where it was found by Nee; and of the western shores of NorthAmerica, at Nootka Sound , where it was found by Menzies. Introducedinto Britain by the last botanist, in 1796.

Description, §c. A very branchy, spreading, light green tree. Branchescrowded, covered with a reddish brown bark; branchlets dense, oftendivided, pectinate, compressed. Leaves rhomboid-ovate, acute, closely ad-pressed, imbricated in 4 rows, crowded together between the nodes; glabrous,quite entire, shining, tubercled in the middle. Cones scattered, solitary,nodding, oblong; scales elliptic, obtuse, flat, obsoletely furrowed. Seedscompressed, winged all round, emarginate at the apex, obcordate-oblong.(Lamb.) There are plants in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, at Messrs.Loddiges, and in other collections in the neighbourhood of London , where ithas every appearance of being a variety of T. occidentals, of which we, atleast, have no doubt.

f 3. T. chilb'nsis Lamb. The Chili Arbor Vitae.

Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. p. 128., No. 62.

Synonyme. Cupressus rhyoldes Pavon MSS.

Spec. Char., $c. Branchlets jointed, spreading, compressed. Leaves ovate-oblong, obtuse, some-what 3-angled, imbricated in 4 rows, adpressed, naked, furrowed on both sides. Cones oval-oblong;scales 4, compressed, elliptic, obtuse. Seeds winged at the apex, entire. {Lamb. Pin ., ii. No. 62.)A native of Chili, on the Andes ; where it was found by Nee and by Pavon. Not yet intro-duced.

Description, 8fC- A beautiful, dark green, spreading tree. Branches numerous, drooping,covered with a greyish-brown bark. Branchlets crowded at the apexes of the branches, oftendivided, compressed, articulated. Leaves oval-oblong, obtuse, somewhat trigonous, imbricated in4 rows, adpressed, naked, somewhat distant; iniernodes distinct, especially in adult ones ; glabrous,marked near the edge on both sides with a whitish, broad, depressed furrow, closely joined at thebase, sheathing the branchlets. Cones numerous, terminal, drooping, oblong, compressed, 4 -valved;exterior valves ovate-oblong, boat-shaped, pointed, externally convex ; interior 2, opposite, spatnu-late, flattened at the apex, roundish, having a smaller nearly obsolete tubercle sometimes fertile*Seeds 2, sometimes inserted into the base of the interior valves, having a bead scarious and membra-naceous, very blunt; wing at the apex, decurrent at the base.