716 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART IIT. 
was covered with fruit, presenting one hemispherical mass of spikes. In 1835, this mass measured 
30 ft. high, and 57 ft. in diameter. In Hampshire, at Alresford, 30 years planted, it is 17 ft high; 
at Leigh Park, 7 years planted, it is 13ft. high. In Herefordshire, at Stoke Edith Park, it is 
30ft. high, with a trunk 2}ft. in diameter, and the diameter of the head 48ft. In Lancashire, 
at Latham House, 60 years planted, it is 19{t. high, diameter of the head 39ft. In Derbyshire, at 
Foston Hall, 80 years planted, it is 17 ft. high, with a head 16 ft. in diameter. In Oxfordshire, at 
Blenheim, it is 17 ft. high, with a head 100 {t. in diameter. In Staffordshire, at Sandwell Park, 30 ft. 
high, and the diameter of the head 27 ft. In Yorkshire, at Hornby Castle, 60 years planted, 22 ft. 
high, and the diameter of the head 54 ft.; at Cannon Hall, 23 ft. high, and the diameter of the 
63 ft. In Scotland, near Edinburgh, at Gosford House, 30 years planted, it is 20 ft. high, dia 
of the head 30ft. In Ayrshire, at Brucefield, 30 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 24 ft., and of the d 
33 ft. ; at Rozelle, 22 ft high, diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 35 ft. In Berwickshire, at 
the Hirsel, 30 years planted, and 17 ft. high. In Renfrewshire, at Erskine House, 20 ft. high. In 
Angusshire, at Kinnaird Castle, 30 years planted, and 25 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 22 in., and of 
the head 36 ft. ; at Old Montrose, 60 years planted, and 35 ft. high. In Banffshire, at Gordon Castle, 
45 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 6 in., and of the head 57 ft. In Clackmannanshire, at the Dollar 
Institution, 12 years planted, and 12 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8in., and of the head 10 ft. 
In Fifeshire, at Dysart House, 14 ft. high, with a hemispherical head 25ft. in diameter; at Largo 
House, a tree with a head 40 ft. in diameter ; at Raith, 4 trees, 32 years planted, were measured by 
Mr. Sang in 1819, and the girt was found to vary from 3ft. 10 in., to 5ft. 2in., at the surface of the 
ground. (Plant. Kal., p. 558.) In Perthshire, at ‘Taymouth, 100 years planted, and 40ft. high, the 
diameter of the trunk 23 ft., and of the head 60ft. In Stirlingshire, at Airthrie Castle, 36 years 
planted, and 33 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 15ft.; at West Plean, 24 years 
lanted, and 22 ft. high ; at Sanchie, 25 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head 29 ft. 
a Ireland, at Kilkenny, in Woodstock Park, 70 years planted, and 31 ft. high, the diameter of the 
trunk 3 ft. 10in., and of the head 58 ft. In Wicklow, at Shelton Abbey, 40 years planted, and 36 ft. 
high, the diameter of the trunk 2} ft., and of the head 39ft. In Antrim, at Antrim Castle, 150 
years planted, 18 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 7in., and of the head 36 ft. In Fermanagh, 
at Florence Court, 40 years planted, and 32 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 3 ft., and of the head 22 ft. 
In Louk, a Oriel Temple, 50 years planted, and 35 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2ft., and of 
the head 35ft. ; 
Commercial Statistics. Seedling plants, in the London nurseries, are 5s. per 
100; transplanted plants, a foot high, 20s. per 100; and berries 14s. per 
bushel: at Bollwyller, where it requires protection during winter, plants are 
1 franc 50 cents each; and at New York, where it is also tender, plants are 
1 dollar each. S 
# 29. C. Lauroce’rasus Lois. The Laurel Cherry, or common Laurel. 
Identification. Wois. in N. Du Ham., 5. p. 6.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 540.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 516. 
Synonymes. Prinus Laurocérasus Lin. Sp., 678. ; Cherry Bay, Cherry Laurel; Laurier au Lait, 
Laurier Cerisier, Laurier Amandier, Fr. ; Kirsche Lorbeer, Ger. 
Engravings. Blackw. Herb., t. 512.; Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 346. t.133.; and our fig. 422. 
Spec. Char., §c. Evergreen. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, remotely 
serrate, bearing upon the under surface of the disk 2—4 glands. Racemes 
shorter than the leaves. Fruit ovate-acute. Brought from Trebisond, in 
Asia Minor, into Europe, in 1576. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 540.) 
Varieties. 
# ©. L. 2 variegdta Hort.—Leaves variegated with either white or yellow. 
« ©. I. 3 angustifolia Hort., with leaves about a third part of the width of 
those of the species, and a 
more dwarf-growing plant. A 
very distinct variety, which 
seldom, if ever, flowers. In 
some nurseries, it is called 
Hartogia capénsis, though this 
latter is a totally different 
plant. (See p.495. and p. 504.) 
Description. The common laurel, 



all the other species of the genus by 7 
the largeness of its smooth, yellowish 7 
green, shining leaves, which in colour %y 
resemble those of the common orange ; ¥ 
and in both colour and magnitude, and 
somewhat, also, in form, those of the 
broad-leaved variety of Magnolia grandi- 
flora. The young shoots, and petioles 
of the leaves, are of a pale green, which 
is not the case with the young shoots 

