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is 16 ft. hiiili ; in Yorkshire, at Kipley Castle, 11 years planted, it is 15 it. 

 high. In Scotland, in the <j;arden oftiie Caledonian Horticultural Society,!* 

 years planted, it is H It. high. In Ireland, at Oriel Temple, ;i.O years planted, 

 it is -^7 ft. high. Price of plants, in the London Nurseries, i.v. (Ul. each; at 

 BoUwyller, I franc oO cents ; and at New York, 25 cents a plant, and 1 dol- 

 lar and 50 cents for a quart of seed. 



C. Leaves 5-lobcd. 



5 5. A. macropiiy'llum Pursh. The long, or large, leaved Maple. 



l(lt-ntification. Pursh, Fl. Amcr. Sept., 1. p. 267. ; Dec. Prod., 1 p. .5P4. ; Don's Mill., 1 p. 649. 

 EnsraviiijiS. Hook. PI. 13or. Amer., 1. t .'38. ; (Mxfigs. 117. in p. 4o8,43y., and 118. in p. 4-iO, +il. ; and 

 Itie plate of this species in our Second Volume. 



Spec. Char., S,c. Leaves digitately 5-lobed, with roundish recesses. Lobes 

 somewhat 3-lobed, repandly toothed, pubescent beneath, racemes com- 

 pound, erect. Stamens 9, with hairy filaments. Ovaries very hairy. {Don\ 

 Mill., i. p. G48.) The leaves vary inuch in size, and also in the manner in 

 which they are lobed. Those of the dried specimens sent home by Mr. 

 Douglas, are cut nearly to the base, so as almost to merit the appellation of 

 palmate, while those of young plants in the London Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, and at Messrs. Loddiges's, are not more deeply cut than those of 

 A. yjlatanoides, as may be seen by our Jigs, in p. 44-0, 441., taken from 

 leaves gathered in these gardens. 



Description, Sfc. A tree of the largest size, a native of the north-west 

 coast of North America, and introduced into England in I8I2 ; where, how- 

 ever, it has not yet flowered. Li its native country it is found exclusively in 

 woody mountainous regions along the sea coast, between 40'^ and 50^ N. lat., 

 and on the great rapids of the Columbia. This noble tree. Dr. Hooker observes, 

 was unquestionably discovered by ISIr. Mcnzies, the first naturalist who vi- 

 sited the coast where it grows. INIr. Douglas, who subsequenllv found it, 

 and sent dried specimens and seeds to the London Horticultural Society, ob- 

 serves, " It is one of the most graceful of trees in the countiy it inhabits, va- 

 rying from 40 ft. to 90 ft in height, and from G ft to 16 ft. in the circumference 

 of its trunk. The branches are widely spreading, the bark rough and brown, 

 the wood soft, but beautifully veined. It contains, perhaps, as much sap as 

 any species, except J. sacchiirinum ; but the sap is not used for making sugai' 

 by the natives. The flowers are yellow, and very fragrant, ajipeariug in April 

 and May. Mr. Douglas prophetically adds, " It will, at seme future time, 

 constitute one of our most ornamental forest trees in England." {Hookers 

 Fl. Bor. Amcr., vo\. i. p. \\2.) Specimens of the timber, which were sent 

 home by INIr. Douglas, exhibit a grain scarcely inferior in beauty to the finest 

 satin wood. The largest specimen of the tree is in the garden of the London 

 Horticultural Society ; where, in 18."3o, it had attained the height of 25 ft. It 

 is propagated by layers in the garden of the Society ; and at Messrs Loddi- 

 ges's, and the annual shoots from them are often from 6 ft. to 10 ft. in length; 

 so that there can be no doubt of the tree being one of very rapid growth. This 

 magnificent species cannot be too warmly reconuuended to the attention of 

 planters, as it is perfectly hardy, and well suited for general cultivation, both 

 in useful and ornamental plantations, throughout Europe. Plants, in London, 

 cost 2s. 6(1. each ; and when the tree has once ripened seeds in Britain, plants 

 will be much cheaper. 



i 6. A. iT^ATANorDEs L. The Platanus-likc, or Norwai/, Maple. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 149ti. ; Dec. Prod., i. p. fH9; Don's Mill., 1. p. 649. 



Symmymcs. E'rable plane, or E'rable de Norvcge, /•'/•.; s|iitz A horn, or spit2-bluttriger Ahorn, 



Oer. 

 Engravings. Duh. Arb., 1. t. 10. f. 1. ; Tratt Arch., 1. t. 4. : Mill. Ic, t. 8. f. 1.: and out Jig. 119. in 

 p. 442, 443. 



Spec. Char., tfc. Leaves cordate, smooth, .5-lobed. Lobes acuminated, with 

 a few coarse acute teeth. Corymbs stalked, erectish, and, as well as the fruit, 

 smooth; fruit with divaricated wings. (Don's Mill., i. p. ^¥3.) A middle- 



