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tice with nurserymen who raise this species from seed, the plants, by autumn, 

 with careful treatment, will be 2 ft. or 3 ft. in height. 



statistics. Recorded Trees. On a little island in the Ohio, 15 miles above the mouth of the 

 Muskingum, the elder Michaux measured a button-wood tree, which, at 5 ft. from the ground, was 

 40ft. 4. in in circumference. Twenty years before, General Washington had measured the same tree, 

 and found it to be nearly the same size. In 1802, the younger Michaux found, on the right bank of 

 the same river (the Ohio), about 3G miles from Manitta, a plane tree, the base of which was swollen 

 in an extraordinary manner; and which, at 4 ft. from the ground, mea?ured 47 ft. in circumference. 

 This tree, which exhibited the most vigorous vegetation, began to ramify at 20 ft. from the ground ; but 

 Michaux saw several trees which had not a single branch till they had attained the height of 60 ft. 

 or 70 ft. In the notes to Hunter's £iic/y«, an Occidental plane at .'hadwell Lodge is recorded as 

 remarkable for its speedy growth. When planted, in April, 1741, it was 8 ft. high ; and, when mea. 

 EUred in 1775,31 years afterwards, it was G5ft. 9 in. high, with a clear trunk of 120 ft. ; which, 

 at 6 in. from the ground, measured 7 ft. 9 in. in circumference ; and at 20 fl., 4 ft. 6 in. At Biel, in 

 East Lothian, there was, in 1812, an Occidental plane near a fishpond, 4o ft. high, with a trunk 7 ft. 

 1 in. in circumference at 4 ft. from the ground. Another tree, near the same pond, measured 8 ft. 

 5 in. in circumference. {Plant. Kal., p. 568.) 



Existing Trees. In the environs of London, in the gardens of the Archiepiscopal Palace of Lam- 

 beth ; in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, and at Mount Grove, are the large trees already men- 

 tioned. South of London : in Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 100 years old, it is C6 ft. high, the 

 diameter of the trunk 3 ft., and that of the head 66 ft. : in Hampshire, at Tcstwood, 70 years jilanted, 

 it is 80ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. 6 in., and of the head 60 ft. : in Wiltshire, at Wardour 

 Castle, 40 years planted, it is 40 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk oft. 6 in., and of the head 45 ft. 

 North of London : in Bedfordshire, at Ampthill, 85 years planted, it is 50 ft. high, the diameter of 

 the trunk 2 ft. 6 in., and of the head 70 ft.: in Berkshire, at White Knights, 26 years planted, it is 45 ft. 

 high : in Essex, at Audlcy End, 60 years planted, it is70 ft. high, the circumference of the trunk 10 ft. 

 10 in., and of the head 69 ft. : in Gloucestershire, at Doddington, it is 60 ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk .'3 ft., and that of the head 198 ft. : in Herefordshire, at Eastnor Castle, 16 years planted, it is 40 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. ; at Haftield, 15 years planted, it is m ft. high, the <iiameter of 

 the trunk 9 in., and of the head 29 ft. : in Lancashire, at I<atham House, 50 years planted, it is 49 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 42 ft. : in Nottinghamshire, at Clumber Park, 

 it is 64 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. loin., and of the head 66 ft.: in Pembrokeshire, at 

 Stackpole Court, 40 years planted, it is ,'iO ft. high, the diameter of the trunk £ft., and of the head 

 40 ft. : in Radnorshire, at Maeslaugh Castle, it is 70 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of 

 the head 54 ft.: in Shropshire, at Hardwicke Grange, 4 years planted, it is 12 ft high: in Stafford- 

 shire, at Trentham, it is 60 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 6 in., and of the head 40ft. : in 

 Suffolk, at Ampton Hall, 16 years planted, it is 30 ft. high : in Worcestershire, at Croome, 75 years 

 planted, it is 100 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. ti in , and that of the head 60 ft. : in Yorkshire, 

 at Grimston, 14 years planted, it is 35 ft. high. — In Scotland. In the environs of Edinburgh, at Gos- 

 ford House, 24 years old, it is 20 ft high, with a trunk 1 ft 8 in. in diameter. North of Edinburgh : 

 in Argyllshire, at Toward Castle, 13 years planted, it is .30 ft. high, with a trunk 7 in. in diameter : 

 in Banflshirc, at CuUen House, it is 62 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 4 in,, and that of the 

 head 47 ft : in Forfarshire, at Courtachy Castle, 102 years old, it is 72 ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk 3 ft., and of the head 50 ft. ; another, 80 years planted, is 70 ft high, the diameter of the 



trunk 2 ft., and of the head 45 ft In Ireland. In the environs of Dublin, at Cypress Grove, it is .'36 ft 



high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 9 in., and of the head 38 ft.; at Terenure, 15 years planted, 

 it is 20 ft. high. North of Dublin : in the county of Down, at Castle Ward, 130 years old, it is 

 65 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. 3 in., and of the head 52 ft. : in Galway, at Coole, it is ;)9 ft 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft., and that of the head 42 ft. — In France, at the Botanic CJarden 

 at Toulon, 18 years planted, it is 4<) ft. high, the circumference of the trunk 3 ft. i in. ; near Nantes, 

 80 years old, it is 70 ft. high ; at Colombe, near Metz, 70 years old, it is 60 ft. high, the diameter of 

 the trunk 2ft. 4 in., and that of the space covered by the branches 69 ft ; in the Botanic Garden at 

 Avranches, 22 years planted, it is 40 ft. high, the circumference of the trunk 2 ft., and the diameter 

 of the head 20 ft. — In Hanover, in the Botanic Garden at (jiittingen, are several trees, about 10 years 

 l)laiite(i, and from 25 ft. to 30 ft high. — In Cassel, at Wilhelmshoe, 50 years planted, it is 22 ft high, 

 and the diameter of the trunk 4 ft. 6 in. — In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic (Jarden, 

 40 years old, it is 30 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head 20 ft. ; in llosentlial's 

 Nursery, 2(1 years planted, it is 30 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8 in., and of the head 24 ft. ; at 

 Briick on the Leytha, 45 years planted, it is 8*3 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft., and of the head 

 70 ft. — In Bavaria, at Munich, in the English Garden, 40 yearsplanted, it is 60 tt. high, the diameter of 

 the trunk 1 ft. 8 in., and of the head 30 ft. — In Prussia, at Berlin, at Sans Souci, 90 years old, it is 

 90 ft high, thediameter of the trunk 3 ft 6in., and of the head 'oi ft. ; in the Plauen-lnsel, 40 years 

 planted, it is 48 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head 30ft. — In Sweden, iii the 

 Botanic Garden at Lund, 42 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1ft., and of the head 36 ft. — In 

 Italy, in Lombardv, at Monza, 29 years planted, it is 80 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft 6 in., 

 and of the head 90 tt. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, from 3 ft. to 4 ft. 

 high, are Od. each, or 20s. per hundred ; and seeds are 1.5. per quart. At Boll- 

 wyller, plants are from 1 franc to 1 franc and 50 cents each ; and at New 

 York they are 25 cents each. 



CHAP. CVIII. 



THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER ZfALSAMA'CEiE. 



Liquida'mbar L. Flowers unisexual ; those of the two sexes tipon one 

 plant, disposed in capitate catkins. — Male catkins in an upright raceme, 

 each roundi.sh, constituted of numerous stamens, mixed with a few minute 

 scales, disj)osed upon a connate receptacle. Filaments very short, — Female 



