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AKBOKE'IL'M AND IRUTICETU.M. 



PART J 11. 



tria, at Vicuna, in the garden at Schiinbriinn, and also in that of M. Penuild, there are several 

 male salisburias, from 40 ft. to 5U ft. high, which flower every year. The oldest of these was the tree 

 originally planted in the garden at Schonbrunn by Francis I. !.See p. iHM'>.) In the Botanic Garden 

 at Carlsruhe, there is a tree 60 ft. high, which has not yet flowered. In Brnnswick, at Harbke, there 

 is a tree, 70 years planted, and only £Oft. high. In Switzerland, the female tree at Bourdigny (sec 

 p. 2096.) was kindly measured for us in April, 1835, by M Alphonse De Candolle; and, according to 

 his communication in the Gardcrwr'' s Magaxine, vol. xi., it was then from IGft. to 15 ft. high, with a 

 trunk exactly i ft. in circumference at 18 in. from the ground ; and the diameter of the spacejcoverpd by 

 the branches was 25 ft — ^In Italy, in Lombardy, at Monza, 24 years planted, the male is 26 ft. high, 

 the circumference of the trunk 2 ft., and the diameter of the head 18 ft. ; there is also a female, 10 

 years old, which is only 3 ft. high. A female tree, in another garden near Milan, has flowered. In 

 the Botanic Garden at Pavia, a tree, measured by the Abbe Berleze, in 18.32, was 60 It. high. This 

 must be the finest tree in Italy, as that of Montpelier is the finest in France ; that of Carlsruhe the 

 finest in Germany ; that of Leydcn the finest in Holland ; and that of the Mile End Nursery the 

 finest in England. — In North America, at Woodlands, near Philadelphia, there is a tree 54 ft. high, 

 with a trunk 3 ft. 10 in. in circumference at 2 ft. from the ground ; there are also two other trees in 

 the same garden, but not one of them has ever flowered. These trees were brought to America, by 

 Mr. Hamilton, in 1784. (See Card. Mag., xii. p. 378.) 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are from Is. &d. to 

 bs. each, accoi'Jing to the size; female phints, 5*. each, At BoUwyller, plants 

 are 5 francs each; and at New York, 2 dollars. 



App. I. Half-hardy Genera belofiging to the Order Taxdcea:. 



Podocdrpus L'H^rit. is nearly allied to T^xus, and so much resembles that genus, both in its 

 leaves and fruit, that it has not been long separated from it. The species are tall trees, natives of 

 China, Japan, the East Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, South America, and New Holland. About 

 a dozen species have been introduced into Kngland, which are almost always kept in the green- 

 house or stove ; but some have been found to stand the open air in the climate of London, with very 

 slight protection. 



P. 7nacrophi)lliis Swt., I.amb, 2d cd. 2., p. 84.3. ; T. macrophj^lla Tlinn. Jap., 276., Smith in Tlecs's 

 Ci/cl., No. 6.; the long-leaved Japan yew; has the leaves scattered, pointless, spreading every way, and 

 tlie fruit stalkeil. Common in J.ipan, where it is a large and stouttree,thewood;or which is valued for 

 cabinet-work, not being liable to the attacks of insects. It is a native of Japan, and was introduced 

 into the Kew Gardens in 1804. There arc plants at Messrs. Loddigcs's, and in I'arious collections, 

 which are usually kept in green-houses or cold-pits ; but there is a i)lant in the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Garden, which was planted in 1832 in an angle where two walls meet, and is now (1837) 

 between 2 ft. and .3 ft. high. 



P. latifdlius Wall. j q<, . 



Plant. Asiat. Kar., 1. p. ' *^^ ^ 



26. t. 30., and our j^. 

 I!'y5., has the leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, much 

 pointed, and opposita 

 Male catkins fascicled, 

 axillary, on a common 

 peduncle. Nut globose ; 

 receptacle narrow, co. 

 vered with scattered 

 bracteas. An evergreen 

 tree of the middle size. 

 Leaves about 5 in. long, 

 and lin. broad; pale 

 beneath. (fVall.) A 

 native of the mountains 

 of Pundna, tiowering in 

 March, and ripening its 

 fruit towards the end of 

 the year. It iscalled.fop. 

 loiifr by the natives. Dr. 

 Wallich observes, this 

 species "is very dis- 

 tnict from P. macro. 

 |)hyllus in size, figure, 

 and insertion of its 



leaves, and in its fascicled aments. Both species are found on the same lofty range of mountains, 

 iiordenng on the eastern parts of Bengal, not far from the district of Silhet." (See Tentamcn Fiune 

 ^cpalcnstsiUuslTata,\.\i. ^a.) 



P.sninulbi-us Sprengol ; P. excelsus Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; T. spinuli).>a Smith in Ilccs's Cycl., No. 7. ; 

 nas tne leaves partly opposite, or whorled, and lanceolate ; spinous-pointeil, and spreading every 

 way. It is a native of Port Jackson, and there is a plant in the Botanic Garden at Kew, against 

 a west wall, which has stood there without i)rotection since 1S30, and is now 3 ft. high. 



I niic'fcr Persoon; T. nucifera Kcempf. Amicn. Ex., p. 815., icon.. Smith in liecs's Cyc!., No. 5., 



tih e > ■' '■ **' ^^ "'"^ leaves 2-ranked, distant, l.inceolate, pointed, and but half the length 

 ot tne truit ; and the foliage and habit of the plant strongly resemble those of a deciduous cypress. 

 I'requent, according toKampfer, in th^ northern provinces of Japan, where it forms a lotty tree, 



V ht "a'"'' 'J''''°*''''^'"''''y '^""'''''"*' *"""'''''*'' '^' "'"""'^'"'^ '" Ns^pal and Kamaon. The wood is 

 lignt. An oil IS made from the kernel of the nut, which i.s said tobc used for culinarv purpo.u'S, though 

 th I'^'^T 1'^^"^,'"' '""•''«>''i>g'-""t toheeaten. This spwies was introduce<liii 1120, .md is, perhaps, 

 tne nariliest of the gcnu.s; a plant having stood out in open ground in the (ioldworth .Arbore- 

 tum since I8jI, which is now 4 ft. high. It isal>o at Messrs. Loddigcs's. In IS-il (here was a tree 

 of this species at Wliite Knights, which was l.J ft. high. 



