CHAP. XCVII. 



£'LiEAGNA*CEA:. SHEPHE'rD/^. 



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frost. The shoots produced in one season, from a plant cut down, are 5 ft. 

 or 6 ft. in length, and the leaves about twice the length of those of the 

 common species, much less silvery, and so closely resembling those of Sa\i\ 

 viminalis, as to make the shoots from a plant that has been cut down liable 

 to be mistaken for shoots of that species at a short distance. The plant in 

 the London Horticultural Society's Gai'den is of the female sex, and 

 flowered in 1835, when it was about 15 ft. high. 



Statistics. In the environs of London, the largest plants are in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 where they are 20 ft. high. In Surrey, at Deepdene, 9 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. In Wor- 

 cestershire, at Croome, 10 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. In Scotland, in Edinburghshire, at Gosford 

 House, 13 years planted, it is IS ft. high. In France, in the neighbourhood of Paris, it is upwards 

 of 30 ft. high. 



Genus III. 



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SHEPHE'RD/.J Nutt. 



The Shepherdia. 

 Octandria. 



Lm. Sj/st. DioeV'ia 



1908 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 2. p. 240. 



Spnonyme. /Tippophae /,., as to the species S. canadensis Nutt. 



Derivation. Named by Nuttall, in honour of the late Mr. John Shepherd, curator of the Botanic Gar- 

 den of Liverpool, a scientific horticulturist, to whose exertions, and the patronage of the celebrated 

 Roscoe, that institution owes its present eminence. 



Desaiption, Sfc. Small spinescent trees, with the aspect of -Elseagnus. 

 Leaves entire, covered with silvery scales. Flowers small, laterally aggregate. 

 Berries diaphanous, scarlet, acid. (Nutt.) Culture, in British gardens, as in 

 /tippophae. 



34 ¥ 1 . S. arge'ntea Nittt. The silvery-/i»ai'«/ Shepherdia. 



Jdentification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 2. p. 240. 



Synonymes. /Tippophae argentea Pztrsh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 115. ; Missouri Silver Leaf, and 



Buttalo Berry Tree, Amer. ; Rabbit Berry, and Beef Suet Tree, Amer. Indians ; Graise de Buffle, 



or Buffalo Fat, French Traders. 

 Engravings. Our fg. 1208. 



Spec. Char., Src Leaves oblong-ovate, obtuse ; on both 

 surfaces glabrous, and covered with silvery peltate 

 scales. (Ftirs/i and Ktitf.) A small tree, from 12 ft. 

 to 18 ft. high ; a native of North America, on the 

 banks of the Missouri, and its tributary streams, and 

 of other places ; flowering in April and May. It was 

 introduced in 1818, and is not uncommon in collections. 

 The plant in the Horticultural Society's Garden, in 

 1835, was 7 ft. high, though crowded among other 

 shrubs. It forms a very elegant small tree, particularly 

 well adapted for suburban gardens. In the Brighton 

 Nursery, near Boston, in North America, there is a 

 standard tree which, in 1831, was l-ift. high, though 

 only 8 years old, from the seed. The tree is per- 

 fectly hardy in every part of America, where it is one 

 of the earliest-flowering trees, producing its blossoms 

 in March. " Its fruit is about the size of the red Antwerp currant, much 

 richer to the taste, and forms one continued cluster on every branch and 

 twig." (Gard. Mag., vii. p. 571.) The largest plant in the neighbourhood 

 of London is in the Twickenham Botanic Garden, where it is called -Elaeagnu.s 

 argentea, and in 1836 it was 5 ft. high. It flowers freely every year. Price 

 of plants, in the London nurseries, 2s, 6d. each. 



as 2. S. canade'nsis Xutt. The Canadian Shepherdia. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 2. p. 241. 



SynonymCj. Hippophae canadensis Xm. Sp. PA, 1453., JM»7/. Diet, Ho. 1., IVUld. Sp. PI., 4.p.1i4., 



Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 119. 

 Engravings. Encyc. of Plants, No. 13878. ; and ourjig. 1209. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves ovate, or cordate-ovate, opposite; green, and nearh 



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