lo4 PTEI.EA TRIFOLIATA. 



The largest tree of tliis species, existing in Hritain, and probably on the globe, 

 is at Gordon Castle, in IJaniirsliire, Scotland. In ls:i5, it had attained the height 

 of tbrty-hve t'oct, with a trunk liftcen inches in dianidcr, and an ambitus or 

 extent of branches of twenty-seven feet. It was grown in a loamy soil and in a 

 sheltered situation. 



In France, at I'aris, in the Jardin dcs Plantes, there is another tree of this spe- 

 cies, which attained the height of thirty-seven feet in sixty years after planting, 

 with a head lorty feet in diameter. 



In Saxony, at Worlitz, there is also a tree of this species, which attained the 

 height of twenty-five feet in forty-live years after planting ; and another tree of 

 the variety Ptelea trifoliata pcntaphylla, that reached the height of fifteen feet at 

 thirty-four yenrs planted. 



