430 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 100 years planted, ‘and 38 ft. high, the trunk 2 ft. 9 in. in diameter, and 
the head 37 ft. in diameter, growing in stony clay; in Essex, at Braystock, 80 years planted, and 
50 ft. high ; in Surrey, at Farnham Castle, 50 years planted, 30 ft. high; in Suffolk, at Finbo- 
borough Hall, 70 years planted, and 40 ft. high. In Denbighshire, at Llanbede, 20 years planted, 
34 ft. high. In Scotland, near Edinburgh, at Hopeton House, 46 ft. high ; in Argyllshire, at Hafton, 
36 years planted, and 36 ft. high; in Clackmannanshire, in the garden of the Dollar Institution, 12 years 
planted, and 20 ft. high ; in Forfarshire, at Airlie Castle, 10 years planted, and 14 ft. high; in Stirling- 
shire, at Blairlogie, 302 years old, and 55 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft., and of the head 
45ft., the soil, a light loam on dry gravel, and the situation exposed. In France, in the Botanic 
Garden at Toulon, 48 years planted, and 45 ft. high. In Saxony, at Worlitz, 65 years planted, and 
40 ft, high ; in Austria, in {the University Botanic Garden at Vienna, 20 years planted, and 25 ft. 
high; at Laxenburg, 60 years planted, and 45ft. high; at Kopenzel, 45 years planted, and 30 ft. 
high ; at Hadersdorf, 40 years planted, and 21 ft. high. In Prussia, at Sans Souci, 40 years planted, 
and 35ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, 24 years planted, and 20 ft. high. 
Commercial Statistics. Plants, in London, seedlings 10s. a 1000, of a larger 
size 20s. a 1000; the variegated-leaved variety 2s.6d.a plant. At Bollwyller, 
the broad-leaved variegated subvariety, 1 franc 50 cents a plant; at New 
York, ?. 
¥ 19. A. crE’t1cum L. The Cretan Maple. 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 1497.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 594. ; Don’s Mill, 1. p. 649. 
Synonymes. A. heterophyllum Willd. En.; A. sempervirens L. Mant.; E’rable de Créte, Fr.; Cre- 
tischer Ahorn, Ger. 
Engravings. Tratt. Arch., 1.No.19.; Duh. Arb., 1. p. 28. t. 10. f.9.; Alp. Exot., 9. t.8.; Pocock 
Orient., 197. t.85.; Schmidt Arb., t.15.; Krause, t. 120.; our jig. 132. in p, 459.; and the plate of © 
this species in our Second Volume. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves permanent, cuneated at the base, acutely 3-lobed at 
the top. Lobes entire, or toothleted ; lateral ones shortest. _Corymbs few- 
flowered, erect. Fruit smooth, with the wings hardly diverging. (Don’s 
Mill., i. p. 649.) A diminutive slow-growing sub-evergreen tree; native of 
Candia, and of other islands in the Grecian Archipelago. Introduced in 
1752. 
Description, §c. This species is seldom seen in British collections, and 
then more frequently as a shrub than as a tree; but it is readily known 
from all the others, and from A. monspessulanum, to which it makes the near- 
est approach, by its being nearly evergreen; and by the great variety of the 
forms of its leaves; and, according to the specific character, by the flowers 
being erect ; those of A. monspessulanum being pendulous. In young plants, 
the leaves are seldom much lobed; and this, we suppose, has given rise to the 
species or variety known in gardens as A. heterophyllum, which appears to be 
only A. créticum in a young state. We are only aware of three plants of this 
species which have assumed the character of trees in the neighbourhood of 
London ; viz. that at Syon, figured in our Second Volume, which is 28 ft. high, 
flowers freely, and produces seeds almost every year; one in the Chelsea 
Botanic Garden, about 8 ft. high, which has stood there since the time of Mil- 
ler ; and a third, of equal age, which was in the Mile End Nursery, and which, 
in 1834, was 10 ft. high. This last tree has since been sold, and removed to 
the garden of the Rey. T. Williams, at Hendon, Middlesex. This species is 
generally propagated by layers; though it might, probably, be grafted on the 
Montpelier maple. Wherea miniature arboretum is formed in a small garden, 
this species may be considered valuable, as exemplifying the order Aceracez, 
in a space not larger than what would be required for a herbaceous plant. 
Statistics, _The only specimens worth recording in Britain are those already referred to at Syon, 
Chelsea, and Hendon. The plants in the London Horticultural Society’s Garden, and at Messrs. 
Loddiges’s, are not above a foot and a,half high. In France, in the Jardin des Plantes, a tree 130. 
years planted is 31 ft. high. In Saxony, at WG6rlitz, one 55 years planted is 40 ft. high. 
Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, cost 5s. each; at 
Bollwyller, where it is considered as synonymous with A. heteroph¥llum, 
2 francs each; at New York, ?. 
App. i. Doubtful Species of Acer. 
We have not been able to satisfy ourselves respecting the distinctness of 4. 
O’palus and A. opulifolium ; and we are very much inclined to think that the 
sort which we have figured as A, barbatum is a European species, and, con- 
sequently, not the A. barbatum of Michaux. To us, it appears that the A. 
