CHAP. XCVII. ELEAGNA CER. SHEPUE/RDIA. tS27 
frost. The shoots produced in one season, from a plant cut down, are 5 ft. 
or 6ft. in length, and the leaves about twice the length of those of the 
common species, much less silvery, and so closely resembling those of Salix 
viminalis, as to make the shoots from a plant that has been cut down liable 
to be mistaken for shoots of that species at a short distance. The plant in 
the London Horticultural Society’s Garden is of the female sex, and 
flowered in 1835, when it was about 15 ft. high. 
Statistics. In the environs of London, the largest plants are in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, 
where they are 20 ft. high. In Surrey, at Deepdene, 9 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. In Wor- 
cestershire, at Croome, 10 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. In Scotland, in Edinburghshire, at Gosford 
House, 13 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. In France, in the neighbourhood of Paris, it is upwards 
of 30 ft. hig 
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SHEPHE’RD/A Nutt. Tue Sueruerpia. Lin. Syst. Dice'cia 
Octandria. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 2. p. 240. 
Synonyme. Hippéphae L., as to the species S. canadénsis Nutt. 
Derivation. Named by Nuttall, in honour of the late Mr. John Shepherd, curator of the Botanic Gar- 
den of Liverpool, a scientific horticulturist, to whose exertions, and the patronage of the celebrated 
Roscoe, that institution owes its present eminence, 
Description, §c. Small spinescent trees, with the aspect of ZLlaégnus. 
Leaves entire, covered with silvery scales. Flowers small, laterally aggregate. 
Berries diaphanous, scarlet, acid. (Nutt.) Culture, in British gardens, as in 
Hippéphae. 
= ¥ 1. S. arer’nTEA Nutt. The silvery-/eaved Shepherdia. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 2. p. 240. : fry } 
Synonymes. Hippéphae argéntea Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p.115.; Missouri Silver Leaf, and 
Buffalo Berry Three, Amer.; Rabbit Berry, and Beef Suet Tree, Amer. Indians; Graise de Buffle, 
or Buffalo Fat, French Traders. 
Engravings. Our fig. 1208. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oblong-ovate, obtuse; on both 
surfaces glabrous, and covered with silvery peltate 
scales. (Pursh and Nutt.) A small tree, from 12 ft. 
to 18 ft. high; a native of North America, on the 
banks of the Missouri, and its tributary streams, and 
of other places ; flowering in April and May. It was 
introduced in 1818, and is not uncommon in collections, 
The plant in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, in 
1835, was 7ft. high, though crowded among other 
shrubs. It formsa very elegant small tree, particularly 
well adapted for suburban gardens. In the Brighton 
Nursery, near Boston, in North America, there is a 
standard tree which, in 1831, was 14 ft. high, though 
only 8 years old, from the seed. The tree is per- 
fectly hardy in every part of America, where it is one 
of the earliest-flowering trees, producing its blossoms 
in March. “ Its fruit is about the size of the red Antwerp currant, much 
richer to the taste, and forms one continued cluster on every branch and 
twig.” (Gard. Mag., vii. p. 571.) The largest plant in the neighbourhood 
of London is in the Twickenham Botanic Garden, where it is called Kladgnus 
argéntea, and in 1836 it was 5ft. high. It flowers freely every year. Price 
of plants, in the London nurseries, 2s. 6d. each, 
s& 2. S. canape’nsis Nutt, The Canadian Shepherdia. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 2. p. 241. 
Synonyme. Hippophae canadénsis Lin. Sp. Pl., 1453., Mill. Dict., No. 2., Willd. Sp. Pi., 4. p. 744, 
Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 119. 
Engravings. Encyc, of Plants, No, 13878. ; and our fig. 1209. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves oyate, or cordate-ovate, opposite; green, and nearly 
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