130 AltBOUK'lU.M AM) FRUTICLTUM. PART III. 



Uursetdiire, at .Mi'lbiiry Park, 1(H) years plaiKetl, 'aiiJ 'M It. high, the trunk -2 ft. 9 in. in diameter, and 

 the head .?7 ft. in diameter, Rrowinx in stony elay ; in Essex, at Braystock, 80 years planted, and 

 .'"Oft. high ; in Surrey, at Karnham Castle, .'jO years planted, 30 ft. high ; in Suffolk, at Finbo- 

 horouKh Hall, 7(1 years planted, and +0 ft. liigh. In Denbighshire, at Llanbede, 20 years planted, 

 :H ft, high. In .Scotland, near lilinburgh, at Hopeton House, fiift. high ; in .Arg\lUhire, at ilafton, 

 .j<i years |)l.inte<l, and >(> (U high ; in Clackmannanshire, in the garden ot' the Dullar institution, 1'.' years 

 planteit, and JO ft. high ; in Forfarshire, at Airlie Castle, lU years planted, and 11 ft. high ; in Stirling, 

 shire, at HIairlogie, .iui? years old, and 5j ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft, and of the head 

 4.'>rt., the soil, a light loam on dry gravel, and the situation ex|iose<L In France, in the Botanic 

 Ciarden at Toulon, 4« years planted, and 4-> ft. high. In .Saxony, at Wiirlitz, tV> years planted, and 

 4<J ft. high ; in Austria, in |thc University Botanic Garden at Vienna, VO years plantcti, and Soft, 

 high; at I^xenburg, fiO years planted, and 4.") ft. high; at Kopenzcl, 45 years planted, and Soft, 

 high ; at Hiidersilorf, 40 years planted, and 21 ft. high. In Prussia, at Sans Souci, 40 years planted, 

 and 33 ft high. In Bavaria, at Munich, ^4 years planted, and 2(Jft. high. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in London, seedlings lOj. a 1000, of a larger 

 size 'ii^s. a 1000; the variegated-leaved variety 2*. 6rf. a plant. At Bollwyller, 

 the broad-leaved variegated subvariety, 1 franc 50 cents a plant ; at New 

 York, y. 



t 19. A. crk'ticum /.. The Cretan Maple. 



Iilcntijicatitm. Lin. Spec, 1497. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 594. ; Don's Mill, 1. p. G49. 



Si/nont/nirs. A. hetcrophyllura Willd. En.; .^. sempervirens Z. Mant. ; E'rable de Crirte, /"r. ; Cre- 



lischer Ahorn, Uer. 

 Engravings. Tratt. Arch., 1. N'o. U). ; Duh. Arb., 1. p. 08. t. 10. f. 9. ; Alp. Exot, 9. t 8. ; Poccck 



Orient., 197. t 85. ; Schmidt Arb., 1 15. ; Krause, t. 120. ; out Jig. 132. in p. 459. ; and the plate of 



this species in our Second Volume. 



Spec. Char., S^c. Leaves permanent, ciineated 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 

 ]\Ii//., 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. nionspessulanum, 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. mons|)essulanum 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. heterophyjlum, which appears to be 

 only A. creticum in a young state. Wc are only aw;u-e of three plants of this 

 species which have assumed the character of trees in the neighbourhood of 

 Lonilon ; 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, wiiich 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 Rev. T. Williams, at Hendon, Middlesex. This species is 

 generally propagated by layers ; though it might, probabl}', be grafted on the 

 Montpelier maple. Where a miniature arboretum is formed in a small garden, 

 this species may be con.sidereil valuable, as exemplifying tiic order Jceraces, 

 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 referre<l 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 Plantcs, a tree 130 

 years planted is 31 ft. high. In Saxony, at Wcirlitz, one 55 years planted is M ft. high. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, cost 5s. each; at 

 Bollwyller, where it is considered as synonymous with A. hetcrophyllum, 

 2 francs each ; at New York, ?. 



App. i. Doublfid Species of A^cer. 



We have not been able to satisfy ourselves respecting the distinctness of A. 

 ()'|)alus and A. (^jiulifolium ; and we are very much inclined to think that the 

 sort which we have figured a.s A. barbatuin is a European species, and, con- 

 sc(|U(nt!y, not the A. barbatiim of Michaux. To us, it ajipcars that the ./. 



