168 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 



Conifcnc. /^iniis P'mca, niaritima ; yri)ies 7*icca (Greece); Cupressus 

 scmpcrvirens, liisitanica (* Portugal) ; ./iiniperiis Oxycednis, macrocarpa 

 (Greece), lycia ((«recce), plioenicea (Greece, Portugal), iS'abina (Greece, 

 Sicily); £ plicdra distaclija ((irccce, Portugal). 



lEiVipetrccc. (\)renia album (Portugal). 



Stni/dccce. 5niilax aspcra ((ireecc, Sicily), nigra (Greece), excelsa (Greece). 



Asp/tod c/ccc. Asparagus acutifolius, aphyllus (Greece, Sicily), horridus 

 (Greece, Sicily), verticillatus ((xrecce), alhus (Portugal, Sicily). 



Jiroinc/iiicciV, Agave americana (Portugal, the more soutlurn part of). 



VdlvM'. Phce^nix dactvlifcra (Sicily, * Portugal); C'hamie'rops hiimilis 

 (Sicily). . " , . 



Sliortly after this period many foreign trees and shrubs were miported from 

 England into the gardens of Signor del Negro of Genoa, and by iiim distri- 

 buted among tlie amateurs of ins neighbourliood. Some account of the 

 ganlens in which these trees were planted will be found in ti)c Encyc. of 

 Gard. (edit. ls3j), made from our personal observations in 1819. 



Having thus enumerated the species found in all these countries that are 

 not indigenous to Britain, we shall subjoin some remarks on the trees and 

 shrubs of Italy, of Spain and Portugal, and of Turkey and Modern Greece. 



SuBSECT. 1. Of the Trees and Shrubs of Italy. 



TnK introduction of foreign trees and shrubs into Italy, in modern times, 

 may date from the discovery of India by the Portuguese in 149+, or, rather, 

 from their first settlement at Goa in 1510; from the intercourse of France 

 and Eni'hmd with North America in the commencement of the seventeenth 

 century ; from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch in 

 1G50; and, lastly, from the discovery of Australia. From all these countries, 

 but chicflv from the last, a number of trees and shrubs have been brought to 

 Europe ; which, though they recpiirc the protection of a green-house in England, 

 thrive in the open air in the neiglibourhood of Naples, in Sicily, and in warm 

 situations about Genoa. Among Indian plants may be mentioned, as growing 

 freely in the open air in the south of Italy, the orange and lemon, the Lagerstroe^- 

 niifl indica, the cotton tree, and the cinnamon tree, wiiich attain the height of 

 small trees; from S\ria,' the Aiiic'nx Jutibrissin, or silk tree. Among those from 

 North America are, the nnignolias, and various shrubs from the southern states, 

 the agave from Mexico, and the palmetto from Louisiana. Among those from 

 the Cape of (iooil Hope, are all theligneous 6'eraniaceic, many of the heaths, 

 the diosmas, the proteas, the melaleucas, and similar species. From Australia 

 there are many trees in Italy, which have already attained a large size ; and 

 there is scarcely a doubt but that nearly all the "ligneous flora of that part of 

 the worUI might be transplanted to Italy, including Sicily, with the most 

 perfect success. As a proof of this, we may refer to the dimensions of certain 

 Australian trees planted at Caserta, in the neiglibourhood of Naples, as given 

 in the Gardener'' s Magazine, vol. xi. p. loO. and p. -181. It appears that 

 Eucalyptus robusta attains at Caserta, in a very few years, the height of 100 ft. ; 

 Callistemon lophanthus, and Jcacia hetcrophylla, upwards of 50 ft. Tiie 

 Magnol/V/ grantliflora has attained the height of nearly GOft. ; the camellia 

 25 ft. ; anil tlie melaleuca from 25 ft. to 30 ft. In S;cily, we are informed 

 by Woods, Hogg, and other travellers, the palm and the i-'icus iS'ycomorus 

 grow as freely as in Egypt, the sugar cane and the bamboo nearly as well 

 as in the I-last or West Indies, and the papyrus and the nclumbium suc- 

 cceil in the waters. As the warmest parts of Sicily, therefore, atlmit of 

 growing the plants of the warmest parts of Africa in the open air, there can, 

 we think, be little hazard in supposing that, !)etsveen the nortii of Italy and its 

 southern extremities, the ligneous flora of the whole world might, with a very 

 little assistance from art, be included. 



The first introduction of foreign trees and shrubs into Lombai'dy, we are 

 informed by Signor Manetti, the director and controller of the viceregal 

 gardens at Monza, took place about the year 1770; they were planted by 



