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ARDORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



!• i 3. C. (li.) okikntaYis Lam. Tlie Oriental Hornbeam. 



Id^mcation. IJim. F.ncyc. 1. p. 700. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 408. ; N. Du Ham. 2. p. 199. 

 Sunonumc. C duinciisis Scop. Cam., t. fiO. 

 Entr-avmgs. Scop. Cam., 1 60. ; Dcnd. Brit., t. 98. ; and our 

 Jg. VJSf. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Bractea.s of the fruit ovate, 

 unequal at tlie base, undividt-ii, soiiicwhat 

 angular, unequally serrated. {Willd.) A 

 low tree or shrub, growing to tlie luiglit 

 of 12 ft,; a native of Asia Minor and llic 

 Levant. Introduced in 1739. The Eastern 

 liornbeam is a dwarf tree, rarely rising 

 above 10 ft. or 12 ft. in height. As it 

 shoots out into numerous widely s|)reading, 

 horizontal, irregular branches, it cannot be 

 readily trained up with a straight clear 

 trunk. The leaves are much smaller than 

 those of the common hornbeam, and the 

 branches grow closer together ; so that it is ^ 

 even still better adapted for forming a 

 clipped hedge than that species. It was 

 introduced by iNIiller, in 1739; but, though 

 it is very hardy, and easily propagated by 

 layers, it has never been much cultivated 

 in our nurseries. There arc plants at 

 Messrs. Loddiges's. 



Statistics. In Yorkshire, at Orimston, 14 years planted, it is 25 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, 

 in Rosenthal's Nursery, lo years planted, it is li.' ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the English 

 garden 14 years planted, it is 1;) ft. high. In Italy, at Moiiza, i24 years old, it is '-'6 ft. high, diameter 

 of the trunk t) in., and of the head 2U ft. Plants, m the London nurseries, are 2*. M. each. 



App. i. Species or Varieties of Q,arj)imis not yet introduced into 

 European Gardens. 



Olm/nus (Xi) Carpinlzza Hort. Fl. Aiisf., 2., p. 6'26. Leaves crenately scrr.ited ; scales of the 

 strobiles revolute, 3-cleft ; the middle segment the longest, and quite entire. A native of the « oo<ls 

 of Transylvania. TlieTransylvanians distinguished this sort from C. JSctulus, and call it Carpniizza. 



C. vimhu-a Lindl.,W'all. PI. As. Kar., t. 106., , qoo 



Koyle must., p. .HI., and our Jig. U«8., has ^^-^^ 



the leaves ovate-lanceolate, much acuminated, 

 doubly serrated ; petioles and branchlcts gla- 

 brous ; bractcas fruit-bearing, ovate-oblong, 

 laciniateat the base, somewhat entire at tlie 

 apex, bluntish. (/,««//. MSS.) A native of 

 the mountains of Nepal, in Sirmore and 

 Kamaon ; and, according to Royle, on Mus- 

 source, at the height of (iSU) ft. above the level 

 of the sea; flowering and fruiting from Janu- 

 ary to April. "This fine tree is very like the 

 common alder. Its wood is considered dur- 

 able and is used for ordinary building purpo.ses 

 by the natives of Nepal. The slender iiendu. 

 Uius branches are fre<|uently att.icked by a .sort 

 of coccus, which produces numerous elevated 

 tubercles, or warU. The structure of the nut 

 resembles that oft'. Zfetulus, as described and 

 figured by (ia-rtner, except in the following 

 respect:— The cavity is filled with what ap- 

 pears to me an entire and homogeneous, fleshy, 

 almost colcmrless substance, cxcee'-- ■■'■• '•'^" ■' 

 peri.sperm ; in which arc 6Uspen(i 



the apex of the seed, two minute .. 



It is possible, that, notwith.standing the most 



careful and repeated examination, 1 may have . , ^ . . , . . 



mistaken the cotyledons of the ripe seed for a pcrisperm ; but I have invariably seen two minute 

 embryones lodgetl within the upper end of the Heshv substance which fills the nut." (n<i//. /'/. .is. 

 Jiar.'t. lOTvl From the elevation at which this tree grows, it will i)robably be found hardy in 

 liritish gardens. , . , , . , , . i 



(■ (aKinca Lindl., Wall. PI. As. Kar., 2. p. .'")., has the leaves ovate- oblong, .ncute, sharply serratetl, 

 and Kla\)rous; |>etioles and br.inchlets downy; bracteas fruit-bearing, somewhat rhomboid, with 

 large teeth, acuU', reticulated. It is nearly allied to f. orientalis, but difFers in the form and margin 

 of the Io.if,'and in the bracteas. {Hall. PL As. liar., 2. p. 5.) 



e, exceeditigly like a ^t^ -r^ 

 suspended, towards ^^[^^ 

 minute embryones. ^>^ 



