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AUBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART in. 



there is a tree 35 ft. high ; another, of the same height, at Ken Wood ; and at Kew, one SO ft, high. 

 South of London, in lievonshire, there is a tree at Kiidsleigh Cottage, which, in 15 years, has at- 

 tained the height of 2,jft., with a trunk 9 in. in diameter. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, a tree, 

 5<) years planted, is jo ft. high. In Surrey, at Bagshot I'ark, one, 30 years planted, is a) ft. high. 

 North of London, in Berkshire, at White Knights, a tree, 24 years planted, is .3()ft high. In Cam. 

 bridgeshire, in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, one, 40 years planted, is 40 ft. high. In Cheshire, 

 at Kinrael Park, one, yo years planted, isii4ft high. In Oxfordshire, in the Oxford Botanic 

 Garden, a tree, 40 years planted, is 3() (i. high. In Pembrokeshire, at Stackpole Court, there is a tree 

 70 years planted, and 40 ft. high. In Shropshire, at Willey Park, a tree, 1'-' years planteii, is 21 ft. 

 high. In Worcestershire, at Croome, a tree, M) years planted, is 40 fL high', the diameter of the 

 trunk 22 in., and of the head 25 ft. ; at Hagley, 10 years planted, it is 13 ft. high. 



(yrnus europtea in Scotland. In Ayrshire.at Blair, it is 25 ft. high, with a head 26 ft. in diameter. 

 In Banffshire, at Gordon Castle, it is 2i)ft. high. In Clackmannanshire, in the garden of the Dollar 

 Institution, a tree, 12 years planted, is 14 fL high. In Fifeshire, at Danibristle Park, there is a tree 

 30 ft. high, with the trunk 14 in. in diameter, and the diameter of the head 30 ft. In Perthshire, in 

 the Perth Nursery, a tree, 25 years planted, is 14ft high; the diameter of the trunk 8 in., and of 

 the head 12 ft. 



O'mus eurofxr^ a in Ireland. In the environs of Dublin, at Terenure, 10 years planted, it is only 

 6 ft. high. In King's County, at Charleville Forest, 5(t years planted, it is 34(1. high. In Louth, at 

 Oriel Temple, a tree, 45 years planted, is 41 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 2 in., and of the 

 head Uli fL, on clayey soil; it flowers abundantly, but does not fonn any seed. 



O'rnus europic^a in Foreign Countries. In France, in the Botanic Garden at Toulon, a tree, 40 

 vears planted, is .Jii ft high; at Clervaux, near Chatellerault, 29 years planted, it is 29 ft. high. In 

 Holland, in the Botanic Garden at Leyden, is the tree fi«. 1067., which is 24 ft. high, the diameter of 

 the stock, or base of the column, is 32 in., and that oi the shaft proceeding from it, l(i in. In 

 Austria, at Vienna, in Rdsenthal's Nursery, a tree, 14 years planted, is 15ft. high; at Uriick on 

 the Leytha, one, 45 years planted, is .30 ft. high. In Hanover, at Giittingen, in the Botanic Garden, 

 a tree, 20 years planted, is 16 ft. high. 



$ 2. O. (e.) rotcsdifo'lia Pcrs. The round-leafleted Flowering, or Jlfflwnff, 



Ash. 



Identification. Pers. Ench., 2. p. 605. ; Don's Mill , 4. p. 57. 



Si/nonytnes. fraxinus rotundirolia AH. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 445., f'ahl Enum., 1. p. 49., WUId. Sp., 

 i. p. 1105., IfUld. Baum., p. 145. L 2. f. 1. ; F. mannifera Horl., Pluk. Attn., 182. f. i.,Bauh.,Hist., 



Engravings. Willd. Baum., t 2. f. 1. ; Pluk. Aim., p. 4. ; Bauh. Hist., 1. f. 2. ; and our fig. 1069. 



Spec. Char.,SfC. Leaves with .3 — 3 pairs of roundi-sh-ovate, bluntly serrated, 

 almost sessile leaflets, which are narrow at the ba.se, rather small, and 

 glabrous. Petioles channeled. Flowers with purplish petals, 

 polygamous. Peduncles axillary. Branches and buds brown. 

 The flowers come out in the spring, before the leaves, like tho.se 

 of other species of this genus, as well as of that of Fraxinus. 

 (DuiCs Mill., iv. p. 57.) A tree» native to Calabria and the 

 Levant, &c., where it grows to the height of from 16 ft. to 20 ft. 

 It flowers in April, and was introduced into Britain in 1697, 

 where it attains the height of .30 ft. or 40 ft. What has been 

 said of O. europae'a may be considered as applicable to this 

 which, we have no doubt whatever, is only a variety of it, 1069 



5 3. O. (e.) america\na Pur-t/i. The American Flowering A.sh. 



Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. 1()7() 



Sept., 1. p. 9. ; Nutt Gen. Amer. 



1. p. 6. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 57. 

 Synonymes. P. amcricilna Linn. 



Sp., 1510. ? ; F. O'mus americana 



Lodd. Cat.,ed. 1836. 

 Engraving. Ourfig. 1070. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves 

 with 2 — 5 pairs of ob- 

 long or ovate-acumi- 

 nated, shining, serrated 

 leaflets, each 3—5 in. 

 long, and 2 in. broad, and 

 having the larger veins 

 rather villous, glaucous, 

 and paler beneath, the 

 odd one rather cordate. 

 Flowers with petals, dis- 

 posed in terminal pani- 

 cles. Branches brown- 

 ish grey. Buds brown. 

 Samara narrow, obtuse. 



