Platanus 
orientalis. 
Platanus 
acerifolia. 
120 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
PLATANACEZ:. 
PLATANUS ORIENTALIS. 
Loudon, v. 4. 2033. 
Several good ones at Barton, planted by my 
father, in 1825, or thereabouts; well grown and 
handsome, though none of them are so symmetrical 
or so beautiful as they might have been owing to 
their having been crowded, and cramped in their 
youth by other trees left growing too near them. 
In consequence of this their trunks have grown 
crooked and twisted and their heads unsym- 
metrical, but their foliage is beautiful. 
The oriental Plane keeps its leaves till very 
late ; this year (1876) it remained well clothed with 
rich and verdant foliage till the second week in 
November, when a‘sharp frost accompanied by 
rough wind, brought the leaves down in heaps. 
The leaves, in general, change colour very little 
before they fall, only becoming a little paler. 
PLATANUS ACERIFOLIA. (?) 
Willdenow. (?) 
Pl. ‘Orientalas:() 
Var. Acerifolia. (?) 
Loudon. (?) 
I feel much uncertainty about this species or 
variety. We have, certainly, at Barton, many 
trees (planted by my father) of that sort of Plane, 
which is commonly supposed to be the Western or 
American Plane tree, Platanus occidentalis. It 1s 
the same which is so generally planted in the 
