CHAP. CXII. 



TAXA'CEJE. SALISBU'r/^. 



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which may be chosen, and trained so as to form a handsome erect tree. It 

 may be worthy of notice, that the two male trees which flowered first in 

 England were trained against walls, and that the flowers appeared only in 

 small quantities, at the extremity of the longest branches. It also deserves 

 notice, that the tree in the Strasburg Botanic Garden, which, when we saw it 

 in 1828, had flowered for several years in succession, was not above 20 ft. 

 high : but it had been almost entirely shaded by a large poplar tree ; and the 

 flowers were only produced on the extremity of one branch, which had 

 stretched out to the Ught. The same may be said of the tree which flowered 

 in a garden adjoining the Mile End Nursery, which had the farther stimulus 

 of the bark of the trunk having been so much injured for some years before 

 as to operate like ringing. The grafting of the salisburia may be performed 

 in the splice manner, and, apparently, with as much facility as in grafting 

 apple trees ; and, hence, every possessor of a male tree may add a female to 

 it if he chooses. 



Statistics. In the environs of London, a tree at Purser's Cross, planted in 1767, was, in 1837, up- 

 wards of 60 ft. liigh ; another tree near it is upwards of 50 ft. high. In the Mile End Nursery are 

 several trees, the highest of which (figured in our last Volume) was, in 1834, 57 ft. high, with a trunk 

 3 ft, in diameter ; and in 1837 it had gained 3 ft. in height. In the grounds of an adjoining villa, there 

 is a tree between 30ft. and 40 ft. high, which has grown all to one side, in consequence of the pres- 

 sure of other trees. This tree produced abundance of male blos.soms in May, 1835, and is now (June 

 5. 1837) also in flower. In the Kew Garden there are some male trees trained against walls, one 

 of which has flowered several times (see p. 2096.); and a female tree, received from Professor De Can- 

 dolle, in 1818., but which has not yet flowered. In our garden in Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, is a 

 male tree, with a female grafted on its summit, which is now (1837) upward.s of 15 ft. high. At Ham 

 House Essex, is a male tree, trained against the front of the house, which flowered about 1796, and is 

 33 ft. high. At Leyton, in the grounds of Robert Barclay, Esq., 16 years planted, it is 18 ft. high.— South 

 of London. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 30 years planted, it is 24 ft. high. In Somersetshire, 

 at Leigh Park, it is 40ft. high, the circumference of the trunk 5ft., and the diameter of the head 

 30 ft. — North of London. In Gloucestershire, at Doddington Park, 26 years planted, it is 18 ft. 



high, the diameter of the trimk 10 in., and that of the head 45 ft In Scotland, in Forfarshire, at 



Kinnaird Castle, 30 years planted, it is 22 ft. high.— In France, in the Jardin des Plantes, 50 years 

 old, it is 55 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 4 in., and of the head 25 ft. At Avranches, in 

 the Botanic Garden, 19 years, old, it is 6 ft. 6in. high.— In Holland, at Utrecht, the tree already 

 mentioned, p. 2095., is 33ft. 2in. high, with a trunk I ft. 6in. in diameter at 1 ft. from the ground 

 Professor Kops informs us, in a letter dated December 7. 1835, that it is a branchy tree, and still 

 continues to grow vigorously. He adds that, when he succeeded to the directorship of the garden, 

 in 1816, it was then calculated to be between 70 and 80 yews of age ; and, hence, it must now (1837) 

 be between 90 and 100 years old ; 

 and, ifso, it must have been planted 

 at Utrecht before the tree was in- 

 troduced into England. At Leyden, 

 there is a salisburia, which, in 1S17, 

 the deputation of the Caledonian 

 Horticultural Society considered as 

 a few feet taller than the specimen 

 in the Mile End Nursery was at that 

 time ; which last-mentioned tree 

 was, when seen by the deputation 

 in 1817, above 30 ft. high, and was 

 considered, as it still is, the finest 

 tree of its kind in the neighbour- 

 hood of London. The Leyden tree 

 was inferior to the English one, 

 however, in point of handsomeness 

 and shapeliness. " Indeed, it had 

 been crowded and overgrown by 

 some ordinary forest trees ; and the 

 gardener seemed to pride himself on 

 its transference, some years ago, to 

 its present situation. There was 

 doubtless merit in safely removing 

 so large a plant ; but the choice of 

 its new place is far from being 

 happy, a large common ash here 

 overshadowing it; than which it is 

 not easy to conceive any thing more 

 prejudicial. It yields its flowers 

 every season." {Hort. Tuur,p. 159.) 

 Professor Reinwardt, the present 

 director of the Leyden Botanic 

 Garden, kindly sent us a beautiful 

 portrait of this tree, taken in 1836, 

 of which ^g-. 1994. is an engraving, 

 reduced to the scale of 1 in. to 12ft. 

 It was then 41 ft. high, and the cir- 

 cumference of the trunk, at 1 ft. 

 from the ground, was 4 ft. 6 in.— In 

 Belgium, in the park at Lacken, 

 near Brussels, there is a salisburia 

 23 ft. high.— In Germany, in Aus- 



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