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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111. 



tria, at Vierma, in the garden at Schonbrunn, and also in that of M. Pernold, there are several 

 male salisburias, from -Wft. to 50 ft. high, which flower every year. The oldest of these was the tree 

 originally planted in the garden at Schonbrunn by Francis I. (See p. £096.) In the Botanic Garden 

 at Carlsruhe, there is a tree 60 ft. high, which has not yet flowered. In Brunswick, at Harbke, there 

 is a tree, 70 years planted, and only 20 ft. high. In Switzerland, the female tree at Bourdigny (see 

 p. 2090".) was kindly measured for us in April, 1S35, by M. Alphonse De Candolle ; and, according to 

 his communication in the Gardetwr's Magazine, vol. xi., it was then from 12 ft. to 15 ft. high, with a 

 trunk exactly 4 ft. in circumference at 18 in. from the ground ; and the diameter of the spaceicovercd by 

 the branches was 25 ft. — In Italy, in Lorabardy, at Monza, 24 years planted, the male is 26 ft. high, 

 the circumference of the trunk 2 ft, and the diameter of the head 18 ft. ; there is also a female, 10 

 years old, which is only S ft. high. A female tree, in another garden near Milan, has flowered. In 

 the Botanic Garden r.t Pavia, a tree, measured by the Abbe Berlezc, in 1832, was 60 ft. high. This 

 must be the finest tree in Italy, as that of Montpelier is the finest in France ; that of Carlsruhe the 

 finest in Germany ; that of Leyden the finest in Holland ; and that of the Mile End Nursery the 

 finest in England. — In North America, at Woodlands, near Philadelphia, there is a tree 54 ft. high, 

 with a trunk 3 ft. 10 in. in circumference at 2 ft. from the ground ; there are also two other trees in 

 the same garden, but not one of them has ever flowered. These trees were brought to America, by 

 Mr. Hamilton, in 1784. (See Gard. Mag., xii. p. 378.) 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are from I*. 6d. to 

 55. each, according to the size; female plants, 5s. each. At Bollwyller, plants 

 are 5 francs each ; and at New York, 2 dollars. 



App. I. Half-hardy Genera belonging to the Order liaxdcea. 



Podocdrpus L'H^rit. is nearly alliedito Taxus, and so much resembles that genus, both in its 

 leaves and fruit, that it has not been long separated from it. The species are tall trees, natives of 

 China, Japan, the East Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, South America, and New Holland. About 

 a dozen species have been introduced into England, which are almost always kept in the green- 

 house or stove ; but some have been found to stand the open air in the climate of London, with very 

 slight protection. 



P. macrophyUus Swt., Lamb, 2d ed. 2., p. 843. ; T. macroph5;ila Thun. Jap., 276., Smith in lices's 

 Cycl., No. 6.; the long.leaved Japan yew; has the leaves scattered, pointless, spreading every way, and 

 the fruit stalked. Common in Japan, where it is a large and stouttree, the wood;of which is valued for 

 cabinet-work, not being liable to the attacks of insects. It is a native of Japan, and was introduced 

 into the Kew Gardens in 1804. There are plants at Messrs. Loddiges's, and in various collections, 

 which are usually kept in green-houses or cold-pits ; but there is a plant in the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Garden, which was planted in 1832 in an angle where two walls meet, and is now (18q_ 

 between 2 ft. and .3 ft. high. '*') 



P. lali/Olws Wall. 

 Plant. Asiat. Rar., 1. p. 

 26. t. 30., and our Jig. 

 15^95., has the leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, much 

 pointed, and opposite. 

 Male catkins fascicled, 

 axillary, on a common 

 peduncle. Nut globose ; 

 recei)tacle narrow, co. 

 vered with scattered 

 bracteas. An evergreen 

 tree of the middle size. 

 Leaves about 5 in. long, 

 and 1 in. broad ; pale 

 beneath. {Wall.) A 

 native of the mountain^ 

 of Puiidna, flowering in 

 March, and ri|)cnlng its 

 fruit towards the end of 

 the year. It is called.'iop. 

 foM/j by the natives. Dr. 

 Wallich observes, this 

 species "is very dis- 

 tinct from P. macro- 

 phallus in size, figure, 

 and insertion of its 



leaves, and in its fascicle<l amcnts. Both species are found on the same lofty range of mountains, 

 bordenng on the ea.stern parts of Bengal, not far from the dwtrict of Silhet." (See Tentamen Flone 

 Nepau:nsistUuslrnl,e, l.p. .^0.) 



P.spinulhsus Sprengel ; P. cxcelsus Lodd. Cat.,cd. 1836 ; T. spinul6sa Smt/h in /{ecs's Ci/cl.,:So. 7. ; 

 has the leaves partly o|)po.site, or whorled, and lanceolate; spinous-poiiited, and spreading every 

 way. It IS a native of Port Jackson, and there is a plant in thelBotanic Garden at Kew, against 

 a wcst^ wall, which has stood there without iirotectlon since 18.30, and is now 3 ft.'high. 



P. nuctfcr Persoon ; T. nucifera Kumrf. Amrni. Ex., 1..815., icon., Smil/i in Jlecs's Cycl., No. 5., 

 rtu e • ''■' '•,'**•' ^^ 'he leaves 2-raiikc(l, distant, lanceolate, iiointed, and but hall the length 

 of the truit ; and the foliage and habit of the plant strongly resemble those of a deciduous cypress. 

 l're(|uent, according tO'Kamijfer, in the northern provinces of Japan, where it forms a lotty tree, 

 with many opposite scaly branches, found also on mountains in Nepal and Kamaon. The wood is 

 light. An oil IS made from the kernel of the nut, which is said to be used for culinary piirpo-ses, though 

 the kernel itself is too astringent to be eaten. This species was introduced in 1420, and is, iierliap.s, 

 the hardiest of the genus; a plant having stood out in open ground in the Goldworth Aiborc- 

 tiiin since 18.31, which is now 4 ft. high. It is also at Messrs. Loddiges's. In 1834 there was a tree 

 of this species at White Knights, which was 13 ft. high. 



