CHAP. XCVII. ELEAGNA CER. HI1ppo/PHAE. 1325 
which are ripe in September, and remain on the tree as long as the leaves, 
and frequently till the following spring. 
Statistics. In the environs of London, the largest trees are those at Syon, one of which is 33 ft. 
high, with a trunk 11 in. in diameter, and a fine round head 17 ft. in diameter. At Kew, a male 
plant, near the pa is 25 ft. high. In Oxfordshire, at Oxford, in the Botanic Garden, 10 years 
planted, it is 15 ft. high. In Rutlandshire, at Belvoir Castle, 18 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. In 
Suffolk, at Ampton Hall, 12 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. In Yorkshire, in the Hull Botanic 
Garden, 10 years planted, it is 12ft. high. In Scotland, in Banffshire, at Huntley Lodge, 12 years 
planted, it is 20ft high. In Argyllshire, at Toward Castle, 13 years planted, it is 14 ft. high: In 
Sutherlandshire, at Dunrobin Castle, 13 years planted, it is5 ft. high. In Ireland, in the Glasnevin 
Botanic Garden, Dublin, 30 years planted, it is 19 ft high 3 at Cypress Grove, Dublin, it is 15 ft. high. 
In the King’s County, at Charleville Forest, 10 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. In Galway, at Coole, 
it is 28 ft. high. In Louth, at Oriel Temple, 25 years planted, it is 19 ft. high. In Sligo, at Makree 
Castle, 10 years planted, it is 5 ft. high. In France, near Paris, at Sceaux, 10 years planted, it is 15 ft. 
high; in the Botanic Garden at Avranches, 10 years planted, it is 16ft. high. In Germany, in 
Hanover, at Harbke, 6 years planted, it is 5ft. high. In Saxony, at Worlitz, 46 years planted, it is 
20ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the Botanic Garden, 24 years planted, it is 18 ft. high. 
In Austria, near Vienna, at Briick on the Leytha, 40 years planted, it is 16 ft. high. In Prussia, 
near Berlin, at Sans Souci, 20 years planted, itis 16 ft. high. In Sweden, at Stockholm, in the Govern- 
ment Garden, 15 years planted, it is7 ft. high. In Russia, in the Crimea, where, according to 
Descemet, it is employed, as in some parts of France, to fix drifting sands, and protect the seeds of 
Pinus Pindster, which are sown on them, it grows with great vigour, In Italy, at Monza, near 
Milan, 21 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. 
Varieties. 
% » H. R. 2 angustifolia Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; see the plate of this tree 
in our last Volume, which is a portrait of a tree, of the female sex, in 
Messrs. Loddiges’s arboretum, taken in October, 1834. Its leaves 
are obviously more narrow than those of the species; the young 
branches are pendulous ; and the tree is highly ornamental. There 
are plants, both of the male and of the female of this variety, in 
the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and in the collection of Messrs. 
Loddiges. 
¥ 2 H. R. 3 sibirica, H. sibirica Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, appears to differ 
very little, if at all, from the species ; but, the plant not being ina 
healthy state, it may be more distinct than we suppose it to be. A 
male plant of H. Rhamndides in the London Horticultural Society’s 
arboretum, which flowered in 1835, had its flower buds smaller and 
earlier in blossom than those of the other; and this, perhaps, may 
be H. R. sibirica; the plants of species which are common to 
Siberia, and the west of Europe, always flowering earlier in this 
country than plants of the same species which are indigenous to it, 
or to Central Europe generally. 
Description, Sc. In its wild state, the sea buckthorn, sallowthorn, or wil- 
lowthorn, rises, with ligneous stems, to the height of 8 ft. or 10 ft.; but, in a 
state of culture, and when trained to a single stem, it grows twice or thrice that 
height. Its branches are numerous, irregular, 
and covered with a brown bark. The flowers are 
small, solitary, and appear before the leaves, or 
coeval withthem. The berries are produced on 
the female plant in great abundance, when the 
male plant stands near it, but not. otherwise. 
There is said to be a variety with red berries 
which Miller saw on the sand-banks in Holland ; 
but we have not heard of its being in cultivation. 
The species is found wild in England, upon cliffs 
above the level of the sea, from Kent to York- 
shire; and is plentiful between Yarmouth and 
Cromer, on the flat sandy coast. In Russia, it 
is found in low, wet, and sandy situations, more 
particularly in the subalpine districts about 
Caucasus; and it is abundant throughout great 4 . 
part of Tartary. “ Hippophae Rhamnoides Ns S 
grows in pee all along the course of the I perc 
Arve; and Deiléphila (Sphinz) hippé6phaes is now so plentiful, in consequence 
of the numbers of it collected and bred by the peasants, that a specimen costs 
