CHAP. LXXIX. 



BIGNON/y/ CE^. 



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Botanic Garden, 10 years planted, it is 16 ft. high. In Cassel, at Wilhelmshoe, 40 years planted, it 

 is only 5 ft. liigh, with a trunk 8 in. diameter, the shoots being killed back every year by the autumnal 

 frosts. In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic Garden, 26 years planted, it is 40 ft. high, 

 the diameter of the trunk 18 in., and that of the head 24 ft. ; at Laxenburg, 20 years planted, it is 

 18 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 6 in., and of the head 10 ft. ; at Kopenzel, 25 years planted, 

 it is 24 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 in., and of the head 8 ft., against a wall ; at Briick on 

 the Leytha, 40 years planted, it is 34 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk IJ ft, and of the head 

 24 ft. in Prussia, at Sans Souci, 20 years planted, it is 11 ft. high, the (ftaraeter of the trunk 4 in. ; 

 in the Pfauen-lnsel, 9 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. 



Catalpa syr'ingiefiilia in Russia. At Petersburg and Moscow, it is a green-house plant ; in the 

 Government Garden at Odessa, In the Crimea, it fonns a splendid tree, flowering every year, and 

 sometimes ripening seeds ; though in the winter of 1835, M. Descemet informs us, it was very much 

 injured by frost. 



Cat4Ipa syrhigw/dlia in Italy. In various parts of Italy and the south of France, and particu- 

 larly in the neighbourhood of Milan and Montpelier, the Cal/ilpa is planted as a road-side tree, and 

 along the avenues to country houses; where, with MH'ia. Azei/ardch and the tulip tree, and in 

 some places, where the soil is moist, with MagnbUVr acuminata and other species, it forms a scene 

 of splendour and beauty worthy of a climate so congenial to vegetation. In Lombardy, at Monza, 

 29 years planted, it is 24ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk loin., and that of the head 24 ft. 



Commercial Statistics. Price, in the London nurseries, seedlings 5^. per 100; 

 transplanted seedlings, from 2 ft. to 4 ft., from 255. to 73x. per 100; single 

 plants from \s. to 2sA]d. each, according to their size; and seeds 2s. per oz. 

 At Bollwyller, plants are from 1 franc to H francs each, and 2 years' seedUngs 

 15 francs per 100. At New York, plants are 50 cents each. 



App. I. Of the half-hardy ligneous Plants of the Order 

 Bigno?naceae. 



Eccremocdrpus longiflbrus Humb. et Bonp. PI. iEquin., 1. p. 229. t. 65., and onr fig. 1095., is a 

 climber, a native of Peru, with leaves abruptly tripinnatc ; and yellow flowers, which are produced 

 in July and August. It was introduced in 1825, and is suflruticose rather than ligneous ; but, preserved 

 in a pit during the winter, and turned out into light rich soil in May, and trained against a wall 

 with a southern aspect, it grows with extraordinary rapidity, flowers freely, and ripens seeds, from 

 which, or by cuttings, it is readily propagated. 



E. viridis Ruiz et Pav., Don's Mill., 4 p. 231., has green flowers and bipinnate leaves. It is a 

 native of Peru, in woods ; but has not yet been introduced. 



Cafdmpelis schbra D. Don; Eccremocarpus sc^ber Ruix et Pav., Bot. Reg., t. 939. ; and our figs. 1096. 

 and 1097. Introduced from Chili in 1824. Leaves bipinnate, with the leaflets alternate, obliquely cor- 

 date, ovate,, serrated or entire. Thecalyx is green ; the corolla scarlet, or of a deep orange red ; and the 

 capsule large and muricated. It requires exactly the same treatment as Eccremocarpus ; and, where 

 youngplants cannot be preserved through the winter in a pit or green-house, they may be raised 

 from seeds (which the plant ripens abundantly in the open air, in the neighbourhood of London^, 

 early in spring, in a hot-bed, and shifted from smaller pots to larger ones, so as to be ready to 

 be turned out in the open ground about the end of May. In mild seasons, this species, and 

 also Eccremocarpus longiflijrus, live through the winter with very little protection, and shoot up 

 again in the spring. A plant of Calampelis scabra, in the Horticultural Society's Garden, has stood 

 out against a wall in this way since 18.30. Perhaps it may be objected to our introducing such plants 

 as Eccremocarpus and Calampelis, that they are not truly ligneous ; and that, north of London, they 

 require to be treated more as herbaceous summer climbers or conservatory plants, than as hardy 

 ligneous ones. We readily admit that such plants as these form, as it were, the boundary of the 

 ligneous kingdom ; but still we think they are more woody than herbaceous, and that the same kind 

 of garden culture which is applicable to ligneous plants is the best adapted for them. Besides, in the 

 south of England, the stems of the species of both these genera assume a decidedly more ligneous 

 character than they do in the climate of London, and the plants endure in the open air, against a wall, 

 for several years. 



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