BRITISH AND FOREIGN PRICED CATALOGUES. 



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Italian Names. 

 cerbone, Rogo cervino, Re- 

 vo cervine, Rogo cervione, 

 Smilace. 

 Cina, Cina gentile, Cina petri- 

 ta, Radice di Cina. 



- Salsapariglia, Sarsaparilla, 



Zarsaparilla, Zarzapari'.la. 



- Rusco. 



- Brusco, Bruscolo, Pugnitopo, 



Pungitopo, Ruschio, Spru- 

 naggio, Sprunaggiolo, Stri- 

 notopo. 



- Bislingua, Bonifaccia, Lauro 



Alessandrino, Lingua pa- 

 gana, Linguella. 



- Lauro alessandrino, Lauro 



d' Alessandria, Lauro ideo. 



APPENDIX III. 



PRICED CATALOGUES OF TREES AND SHRUBS, CONTRIBUTED BY BRITISH 

 AND CONTINENTAL NURSERYMEN. 



The prices of trees and shrubs vary permanently in different countries from 

 permanent causes, and also locally and temporally, in every particular countr}', fiom 

 difficulty or facility of cultivation, or from scarcity or abundance. The prices in Lon- 

 don, BoUwyller, and New York, as given in the body of this work, after each of the prin- 

 cipal species described in it, will convey a sufficiently accurate idea of the comparaiive 

 prices of ligneous plants in both hemispheres. Nevertheless, we have thought it ad- 

 visable to publish the following five Catalogues, as well to show the variation in 

 prices in different parts of Europe, as to exhibit a list of names of species and 

 varieties which existed in the year 1838 in British and Continental nurseries. 



How far the plants to which these names are applied in the nurseries, are identical 

 with those to which they are applied in this Arboretuvi, it is impossible for us, in 

 many cases, to say. The reader can only ascertain this by examining the living 

 plants, and comparing them with our descriptions and figures. The greater number 

 of the names in these Catalogues, however, are, we think, correct; though, in the case of 

 some of the genera, such as fratae^gus, Quercus, Pinus, &c., this is not likely to be 

 the case with all of the species ; and in other genera, such as (Salix, i?6sa, C'ytisus, 

 Genista, ^pirse^a, Cistus, Heiianthemum, &c., it cannot be expected that the nursery- 

 men's names should be correct, since scarcely any two botanists are agreed respecting 

 them : nor is correctness in the names of all the species and varieties of some of 

 these genera of much consequence in a practical point of view, provided the more 

 striking kinds are known and propagated. A great improvement in the nomenclature 

 of hardy fruits has been made in British nurseries, by reference to the collection in 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden; and especially by country nurserymen obtai 'ing 

 grafts from the Society, with the names adopted in the Society's Fruil Catalogue 

 attached. Till lately, the same attention was not paid to ornamental trees and shrubs 

 that has, ever since the Society possessed a garden, been paid to fruit trees ; but 

 a reformation in this department is now going forward, and, if London nurserymen 

 were to compare their plants and names with the names and plants in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Garden, they might be enabled to render their catalogues of them as 

 perfect, and their plants as true to their names, as is now the case with their cata- 

 logues and plants of fruit trees. Country nurserymen generally come to London 

 once a year, and, by bringing specimens of their trees and shrubs with them, they 

 might ascertain the correct names by comparing them with the living plants in the 

 Chiswick Garden. As cuttings for propagation, or to be used as botanical speci- 

 mens for determining the kinds, will, probably, in a short time be spared from the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, country nurserymen, Fellows of the Society, might 



