CHAP. LXXIX. BIGNONIA CE&- 1263 
Botanic Garden, 10 years planted, it is 16 ft. high. In Cassel, at Wilhelmshoe, 40 years planted, it 
is only 5 ft. high, with a trunk 8 in. diameter, the shoots being killed back every year by the autumnal 
frosts. In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Rotanic Garden, 26 years planted, it is 40 ft. high, 
the diameter of the trunk 18in., and that of the head 24 ft.; at Laxenburg, 20 years planted, it is 
18 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 6in., and of the head 10 ft.; at Kopenzel, 25 years planted, 
it is 24 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2in., and of the head 8 ft., against a wall; at Brick on 
the Leytha, 40 years planted, it is 34 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1}ft., and of the head 
24 ft. In Prussia, at Sans Souci, 20 years planted, it is 11 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4in.; 
in the Pfauen-Insel, 9 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. 
CatAlpa syringefdlia in Russia. At Petersburg and Moscow, it is a green-house plant; in the 
Government Garden at Odessa, in the Crimea, it forms a splendid tree, fowering every year, and 
sometimes ripening seeds ; though in the winter of 1835, M. Descemet informs us, it was very much 
injured by frost. 
Catalpa syringefdlia in Italy. In various parts of Italy and the south of France, and particu- 
larly in the neighbourhood of Milan and Montpelier, the Catdlpa is planted as a road-side tree, and 
along the avenues to country houses; where, with Mtlia Azedardch and the tulip tree, and in 
some places, where the soil is moist, with Magndléa acuminata and other species, it forms a scene 
of splendour and beauty worthy of a climate so rg gan to vegetation. In Lombardy, at Monza, 
29 years planted, it is 24ft. high; the diameter of the trunk 16in., and that of the head 24 ft. 
Commercial Statistics. Price, in the London nurseries, seedlings 5s. per 100; 
transplanted seedlings, from 2 ft. to 4ft., from 25s. to 75s. per 100; single 
plants from Is, to 2s.6d. each, according to their size; and seeds 2s. per oz. 
At Bollwyller, plants are from 1 franc to 14 francs each, and 2 years’ seedlings 
15 francs per 100. At New York, plants are 50 cents each. 
App. I. Of the half-hardy ligneous Plants of the Order 
Bignoniacez. 
Eccremocdérpus ore Humb. et Bonp. Pl. Xquin., 1. p. 229. t. 65., and our fig. 1095., is a ° 
climber, a native of Peru, with leaves abruptly tripinnate; and yellow flowers, which are produced 
in July and August. It was introduced in 1825, and is suffruticose rather than ligneous ; but, preserved 
in a pit during the winter, and turned out into light rich soil in May, and trained against a wall 
with a southern aspect, it grows with extraordinary rapidity, flowers freely, and ripens seeds, from 
which, or by cuttings, it is readily propagated. 
E. viridis Ruiz et Pay., Don’s Mill. 4. p. 231., has green flowers and bipinnate leaves. Itis a 
native of Peru, in woods ; but has not yet been introduced. 
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Calampelis scibra D. Don; Eccremocarpusscaber Ruiz et Pav., Bot. Reg., t. 939. ; and our figs. 1096. 
and 1097. Introduced from Chili in 1524. aves bipinnate, with the leatlets alternate, obliquely cor- 
date, ovate, , serrated or entire. The calyx is green ; the corolla scarlet, or of a deep orange red ; and the 
capsule large and muricated. Itrequires exactly the same treatment as Eccremocarpus ; and, where 
youngplants cannot be preserved through the winter in a pit or green-house, they may be raised 
from seeds (which the plant ripens abundantly in the open air, in the neighbourhood of London}, 
early in spring, in a hot-bed, and shifted from smaller pots to larger ones, so as to be ready to 
be turned out in the open ground about the end of May. In mild seasons, this species, and 
also Eccremocarpus longifidrus, live through the winter with very little protection, and shoot up 
again in the spring. A plant of Calémpelis scabra, in the Horticultural Society's Garden, has stood 
out against a wallin this way since 1830. Perhaps it may be objected to our ge lames plants 
as Eccremoc4rpus and Calimpelis, that they are not truly ligneous ; and that, north of London, they 
require-to be treated more as herbaceous summer climbers or conservatory plants, than as hardy 
ligneous ones. We readily admit that such plants as these form, as it were, the boundary of the 
ligneous kingdom ; but still we think they are more woody than herbaceous, and that the same kind 
of garden culture which is applicable to ligneous pane is the best adapted for them. Besides, in the 
south of England, the stems of the specics of both these genera assume a decidedly more ligneous 
character than they doin the climate of London, and the plants endure in the open air, against a wall, 
for several years. 
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