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ARBORETUM AND FRUTlCliTUM. 



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thi> tree produces about 201b. of mast every year, wliich sells at 2 dollars {9s.) |>er lb. [see Gard. 

 Mag , vol viii. p. •MS.) : at Gottingen, in the Botanic Garden, 26 years planted, it is between 30 ft. and 

 40 if. high. In Austria, at Vienna, at Laxenburg, it is '23 ft.. high. In Prussia, at Berlin, at San* 

 Souci, it is 18 ft. high. 



Commercial Slatistics. In the London nurseries, mast is 10.?. per bushel; 



two years' seedlings are i^s. per thousand ; transplanted plants, from 2 ft. to 



3 ft. high, iOs. per thousand. Plants of the purple-leaved variety are from 9d. 



to Is. Gd. each; of the fern-leaved, from ]s. 6(L to '2s. 6d.; and of F.s. pen- 



dula, from 3.?. 6d. to 5s. At Boll w_\ Her, plants of the difFerent varieties are 



from 2 to 3 francs each ; and, at New York, the species is 25 cents per plant, 



and the varieties 1 dollar each. 



If 2. F. ferrvgi'nea Ait. The American ferruginous-wooded Beech. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., S. p. S62. ; Abbott Ins., 2. p. 149.; Willd. Arb., 112.; Michx. N. 



Amer., 3. p. 21.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 4fiO. 

 Synont/mes. F. ainericina latifblia Du Hoi Harbk., 1. p. 269. ^yang., Amer., p. 80. ; red Beech, 



Engravings. Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. t. 106. ; Wang. Amer., t 29. f. 55. ; and ovnjig. 1917. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves ovate, acuminate, thickly toothed; downy beneath; 

 ciliate on the margin. {Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 460.) A North American 

 timber tree, so much resembhng the common European beech, as by some 

 to be considered only a variety of it. It was introduced in 1766, and is 

 not unfrequent in collections. The American beech is ea^ly known from 

 the European one by its much shorter obtusely 

 pointed buds, with short, roundish, convex scales, 

 which terminate almost abruptly, and are enclosed 

 in numerous, short, loose scales. 



Varieties. 



I F. /. 2 caroUnidna ; F. caroliniana Lodd. Cat., 

 ed. 1836; and y?g. 1915. ; has leaves some- 

 what cordate at the base, ovate, slightly 

 acuminate, obsoletely dentate, and some- 

 what mucronate. The colour is a very dark 

 green, somewhat tinged with purple when 

 fully mature. The veins of the under side 

 of the leaf are somewhat hoary. 



5 F. /. 3 latifolia; i''. latifoHa of Lee's Nursery; and our /^. 1916.— 

 Leaves lanceolate, acuminate ; tapering at the base, feather-nerved, 

 much longer than those of the preceding variety in proportion to 

 their length, and of a lighter green. It differs from the plant marked 

 F. carolinianain the Hack- 

 ney Arboretum; but, as 

 the latter is very small, and 

 the Hammersmith plant is 

 growing in a better atmo- 

 sphere, perhaps it is not 

 worth keeping distinct. 



Description, ^-c. The red beech, 

 Michaux observes, bears a greater 

 resemblance to that of Europe than 

 to the American white beech. It 

 equals the latter in diameter, but 

 not in height ; and, as it ramifies near 

 the ground, it has a more massive \ 

 head, and a more tufted foliage. Its ; 

 leaves are equally brilliant with 

 those of the white beech, a little 

 larger and tiiicker, and more deeply 

 serrated. Its fruit is of the same 

 form, but only half as large; while 

 the prickles of its calyx are less 

 numerous, but firmer. The wood 



