150 lUSTOnV AND GEOGUAPIIY OF TREES. PART I. 



The iiiockTii collections of trees in Germany are too numerous to be men- 

 tioned in this work, and we can only, therefore, give the names of those which 

 we have been informed are the most com[)lete. 



In Austria tliere is an excellent collection in the University Botanic Garden 

 of Vienna, under tiie care of Baron Jaccjuin, chiefly planted within the last 

 twenty years, but a part much older. Here the macliiras, male and female, 

 stantfin" the o[)en air, but reiiuire protection during winter. The saiisburia 

 here, and those in several other places near Vicuna, Hower annually ; but they 

 are all male plants. On that in the Botanic (warden, Baron Jac(|uin has had 

 tile female grafted with scions from Geneva, but they have not yet flowered. 

 Laxenburg is more remarkable for native trees than for foreign ones; but there 

 are some very large tulip trees, which ripen their seeds every year, and some 

 very large purple beeches and weeping willows. There is there an Arniii-aria 

 excclsa, protected during winter by a wooden house, which has attaineil the 

 height of 30 ft. in six or seven years. Baron Jacquin assures us that this is 

 one of the finest and most picturesque specimens of this tree that can be 

 imagined. In the park there are many fine oaks of the growth of several 

 centuries ; and a very comprehensive general collection of trees and shrubs, 

 of from ten to forty years' growth. All these have been jilauted by, and are 

 now luider the care of, M. Stei)hcn Rauch, through the exertions of whose 

 son, M. Charles Rauch, now head gardener at Hennweg, we have received 

 much of the information contained in this section; while another son, M. 

 Francis Rauch, now (IS.'J.j) in London, has drawn from nature the greater 

 part of the botanical specimens by which this work is illustrated. In Austria 

 Proper there are collections at Bruck on the Leytha, on the borders of Hun- 

 gary ; at Dornbach, Prince Schwartzenberg; at Hadcrsdorf, Baron Loudon (a 

 view of whoso mansion we have given in the Enci/clopccdia of Gardening, 

 edit. 1835, p. 136. fig. 87.) ; and at the nurseries of Rosenthal, and Held in 

 Vienna. On Kopenzel Berg, a hill in the neighbourhood of Vienna, from 

 which there is one of the finest views in Europe, there is a tulip tree 

 60 years planted, which has an immense globular spreading head, though only 

 45 ft. high. At Bruck, the trees have been chiefly planted within the last eight 

 or ten years ; but there are some older specimens well deserving notice; such 

 as yl'cer striatum, 18 ft. high in 20 years; Paliiirus australis, 18 ft. high in 

 30 years; and Fntxinus atrovirens, 18ft. high in 20 years. At Dornbach 

 there is a good collection ; but very few trees that have been above 40 years 

 planted. At Iladersdorf we observed, in 1814, some fine cypress trees 

 planted round the tomb of the great JNIarshal Loudon, but in the Return 

 Paper received they are not mentioned; there is, however, a good collection, 

 the most rapidly growing tree of w hich appears to be that beautiful species of 

 elm, C'lmus ettusa, which, in 20 years, has attained the height of 3G ft. in 

 poor sandy soil. l"he Vicuna nurseries, especially that of Rosenthal, contain 

 good collections planted within the last 20 years. 



There are collections at Eiscnstadt, and other residences, in Hungary, and 

 in the botanic garden at Pesth. In Bohemia there are collections at Toeplitz, 

 Schonhoff, and other places. 



Tlie following eniuneration of the evergreen trees and shrubs, foreign antl 

 indigenous, which stand the winter at Vienna without protection has been 

 furnished to us by Mr. Francis Rauch : — 



Yiypericinccr. //ypericnm calycinum. 



Vicinea. /Mex y/quifulium. 



LcguminusfC. <S^partium /unccum, Cytisus .vcopiirius. 



Pomdci'fC. C'ratJC^gus i-'\racautha var. fructu lutco. 



Aralidccrr. //edera //Mix and varieties. 



CcipriJ'()/ificc(c. raprifolium sempervirens. 



llrirdccfi: Calluna vulgaris. 



T/ii/»icf(C^a'. i^aphnc Laureola. 



E?//>//o>-6iacca?. i?uxus sempervirens and varieties. 



Conifcra-. /'inus Banks/««ff, Vimhm, ino[)s, puniilio, iStrobus, rigida, 



