CHAP. LXXV. OLEA‘CE. - O’RNUS. 1243 
of fig. 1066. d. If, again, a stock of the common ash were grafted with 
O’rnus, and, after it had grown one year, were headed down to within 
13 ft. or 2 ft. of the graft, and a scion of the common ash inserted ; and, at 
the end of the year, if the shoot produced were grafted with O’rnus at the 
same distance as before, and if this practice were continued, and O’rnus and 
Fraxinus grafted alternately at regular distances, till the stem had attained the 
height of a column, say of 10 ft. or 12 ft., the appearance, after the tree had 
grown for some years, would be as in jig. 1066. 6; which is what architects 
call a rusticated column. Again, if O’rnus were made the stock, and the 
common ash grafted on it, and allowed to grow till it attained the height of 
a column, and if it were then grafted with O’rnus, the appearance would be 
as in fig. 1066. a, which is that of the Roman fasces, or of a column formed out 
of spears. The most singular tree of O’rnus europz'a, perhaps, in Europe, 
is that noticed by Dr. Neill, as growing 
in the Leyden Botanic Garden in 1817. 
In the Journal of a Horticultural Tour 
&c., p. 153.,an engraving is given of this 
tree, together with its dimensions; and 
Jig. 1067. is a copy of this engraving, re- 
duced to a scale of lin. to 12 ft. This 
tree was planted in the time of Boer- 
haave, and, it is reported, was grafted by 
the professor himself ; it must, therefore, 
be considerably above 100 years old. 
Its trunk in 1817 was nearly 12 ft. high; 
and from the ground to the summit of the 
branches was about 24 ft. The sloping 35 
bark at the junction of the stock and graft ot: 
was quite smooth and complete all round; a7 
a fact, Dr. Neill observes, that would seem to indicate that the stock and graft 
had originally been nearly adapted to each other with regard to size. “ All 
roundthe stem are numerous knobs and distorted protuberances, producing the 
most singular effect. In no place, however, is there any appearance of canker 
or disease, the bark being every where healthy. The stem is crowned by a 
thicket of irregular and crowded branches, which form, upon the whole, a fine 
round head.” (Hort. Tour, p. 134.) While the revise of this sheet is before 
us, we have received the dimensions and a portrait of this tree in its present 
state, through the kindness of Professor Reinwardt of Leyden. It is still a 
curious tree, but from age and decay considerably different from the figure 
above given. 
Many oddities of this kind might be produced by the curious gardener. 
The idea of suggesting them occurred to us some years ago, on seeing a very 
remarkable specimen in the New Cross Nursery, which has been since removed. 
There is one at Purser’s Cross, and some at Syon ; though the largest 
tree in the latter place (of which an engraving is given in our last 
Volume) appears to be either a seedling plant, or grafted under the ‘} 
surface of the ground, as no protuberances appear. At Kew, there is ¢§ 
one, of which fig. 1068. is a sketch (e being a view from one side, and_ ff 
f aview from the opposite side), which is to our scale of 1 in. to 
12 ft. There is also a fine specimen of O’rnus americana at Kew, 
grafted on the common ash; but, as the growth of the two spe- 
cies is nearly alike, there is less difference between the scion and 
the stock. (See fig. 1071. in p. 1245.) At Gunnersbury, the same 
effect, and to the same extent, has been produced by grafting the 
variegated on the common sycamore; and, indeed, a similar result 
may be obtained by grafting any slow-growing tree on a fast-growing. 
one. : 




Statistics. O’rnus europea in England. 1n the environs of London, the largest tree is that at 
Syon, which is 58 ft. high, and of which a portrait is given in our Third Volume; at Purser’s Cross 
