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tice with nurserymen who raise this species from seed, the plants, by autumn, 

 with careful treatment, will be 2 ft. or 3 ft. in height. 



Stattstics. Recorded Trees. On a liltlo island in the Ohio, 15 miles above the mouth of the 

 Muskingum, the elder Michaux measured a button-wood tree, which, at 5 ft. from the ground, was 

 40ft. 4. in in circumference. Twenty years before. General Washington had measured the same tree, 

 and found it to be nearly the same size. In 1802, the younger Michaux found, on the right bank of 

 the same river (the Ohio), about 3fi miles from Manitta, a plane tree, the base of which was swollen 

 in an extraordinary manner ; and which, at 4 ft. from the ground, measured 47 ft. in circumference. 

 This tree, which cxhibitedthemost vigorous vegetation, began toramify at 20 ft. from the ground; but 

 Michaux saw several trees which had not a single branch till they had attained the height of 60 ft. 

 or 70 ft. In the notes to Hunter's £yf/yn, an Occidental plane at Shadwell Lodge is recorded as 

 remarkable for its speedy growth. When planted, in April, 1744, it was 8 ft. high ; and, when mea. 

 sured in 1775,31 years afterwards, it was 65ft. 9in. high, with a clear trunk of 20ft.; which, 

 at 6 in. from the ground, measured 7 ft. 9 in. in circumference ; and at 20 ft., 4 ft. 6 in. At Biel, in 

 East Lothian, there was, in 1812, an Occidental plane near a fishpond, 45 ft. high, with a trunk 7 ft. 

 1 in. in circumference at 4 ft. from the ground. Another tree, near the same pond, measured 8 ft. 

 Sin. in circumference. [Plant. Kal., p. 568.) 



Existing Trees. In the environs of London, in the gardens of the Archiepiscopal Palace of Lam. 

 beth ; in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, and at Mount Grove, are the large trees already men- 

 tioned. South of London : in Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 100 years old, it is 66 ft. high, the 

 diameter of the trunk 3 ft., and that of the head 66 ft. : in Hampshire, at Testwood, 70 years planted, 

 it is 80 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. 6 in., and of the head 60 ft. : in Wiltshire, at Wardour 

 Castle, 40 years planted, it is 40 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 6 in., and of the head 45 ft. 

 North of London : in Bedfordshire, at Ampthill, 85 years planted, it is SO ft. high, the diameter of 

 the trunk 2 ft. 6 in., and of the head 70 ft.: in Berkshire, at White Knights, 26 years planted, it is 45 ft. 

 high : in Essex, at Audley End, 60 years planted, it is70 It. high, the circumference of the trunk 10 ft. 

 10 in., and of the head 69 ft. : in Gloucestershire, at Doddington, it is 60 ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk 3 ft., and that of the head 198 ft. : in Herefordshire, at Eastnor Castle, 16 years planted, it is 40 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. ; at Haffield, 15 years planted, it is 45 ft. high, the diameter of 

 the trunk 9 in., and of the head 29 ft. : in Lancashire, at Latham House, 50 years planted, it is 49 it. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 42 ft. : in Nottinghamshire, at Clumber Park, 

 it is 64 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. 10 in., and of the head 66 ft. : in Pembrokeshire, at 

 Stackpole Court, 40 years planted, it is 50 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 

 40 ft. : in Radnorshire, at Maeslaugh Castle, it is 70 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of 

 the head 54 ft. : in Shropshire, at Hardwicke Grange, 4 years planted, it is 12 ft. high : in Stafford- 

 shire, at Trentham, it is 60 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 6 in., and of the head 40 ft. : in 

 Suffolk, at Ampton Hall, 16 years planted, it is 30 ft. high : in Worcestershire, at Croome, 75 years 

 planted, it is 100 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 6 in , and that of the head 60 ft. : in Yorkshire, 



at Grimston, 14 years planted, it is 35 ft. high In Scotland. In the environs of Edinburgh, at Gos- 



ford House, 24 years old, it is 20 ft high, with a trunk 1 ft. Sin. in diameter. North of Edinburgh : 

 in Argyllshire, at Toward Castle, 13 years planted, it is 30 ft. high, with a trunk 7 in. in diameter : 

 in Banffshire, at Cullen House, it is 62 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 4 in., and that of the 

 head 47 ft. : in Forfarshire, at Courtachy Castle, 102 years old, it is 72 ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk 3 ft., and of the head 50 ft. ; another, 80 years planted, is 70 ft. high, the diameter of the 



trunk 2ft., and of the head 45 ft In Ireland. In the environs of Dublin, at Cypress Grove, it is 30 ft. 



high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 9 in., and of the head 38 ft.; at Tcrenure, 15 years planted, 

 it is 20 ft. high. North of Dublin : in the county of Down, at Castle Ward, 130 years old, it is 

 65 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. 3 in., and of the head 52 ft. : in Galway, at Coole, it is 39 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft., and that of the head 42 ft. — In France, at the Botanic Garden 

 at Toulon, 18 years planted, it is 40 ft. high, the circumference of the trunk 3 ft. 2 in. ; near Nantes, 

 80 years old, it is 70 ft. high ; at Colombe, near Metz, 70 years old, it is 60 ft. high, the diameter of 

 the trunk 2 ft. 4 in., and that of the space covered by the branches 69 ft. ; in the Botanic Garden at 

 Avranches, 22 years planted, it is 40 ft. high, the circumference of the trunk 2 ft., and the diameter 

 of the head 20 ft. — In Hanover, in the Botanic Garden at Giittingcn, are several trees, about 10 years 

 planted, and from 25 ft. to 30 ft. high. — In Cassel, at Wilhelmshoe, 50 years planted, it is 22 ft. high, 

 and the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. 6 in. — In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic Garden, 

 40 years old, it is 30 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head 20 ft. ; in Uosenthal's 

 Nursery, 20 years planted, it is 30 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8 in., and of the head 24 ft. ; at 

 Briick on the Leytha, 45 years planted, it is 86 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft., and of the head 



70 ft. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the English (iarden,40 ycarsplanted, it is 0(1 ft. high, the diameter of 



the trunk 1 ft. 8 in., and of the head 30 ft. — In Prussia, at Berlin, at Sans Souci, 90 years old, it is 

 90 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 6 in., and of the head 34 ft. ; in the Pfauen-lnsel, 40 years 

 planted, it is 48 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft, and of the head 3()ft — In Swedeh, in the 



Botanic Garden at Lund, 42 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 1ft., and of the head 36 ft In 



Italy, in Lombardy, at Monza, 29 years planted, it is 80 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 6 in., 

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Commcrcinl Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, from 3 ft. to 4 ft. 

 high, are 9d. each, or 20s. per hundred ; and seeds are l.v. per quart. At Boll- 

 wylier, plants are from 1 franc to 1 franc and 50 cents each j and at New 

 York they are 23 cents each. 



CHAP. CVIII. 



THE IIAllDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER ^ALSAMA^CE.^;. 



Liquida'mbar L. Flowers unisexual; those of the two sexes upon one 

 plant, disjioscd in capitate catkins, — Male catkins in an upright i accnie, 

 tacfi roundi.sl), constituted of numerous stamens, mixed with a few minute 

 scales, disposed upon a connate receptacle. Filaments very short. — Female 



