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feet, or more, with wide-spreading branches, is highly 

 ornamental, and fortunately seems to thrive well 

 amidst the busy haunts of men. 



PLANE LEAVES AND FLOWERS. 



Herodotus says that Xerxes, when he invaded 

 Greece was so enchanted with a beautiful plane tree 

 which he found in Lycia that he encircled it with a 

 collar of gold, and confided the charge of it to one of 

 the ten thousand. Pliny relates that a governor of 

 Lycia feasted eighteen persons in the hollow of a 

 plane tree in that province. 



The Oriental plane was introduced into England 



