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AHHOKKTr.M AND KRUTICETl'M. 



I'AUT 111. 



Dfi.rifid-'i^S-i-. The trunk of this tree is 

 clothed with gre\ bark. The branches are 

 spreading, luit not vc-ry numerous ; ami they 

 are furnished with winded alternate leaves, on 

 loni: petiole-. The fruit is oval, about the 

 si/r of an olive : it is reddish and furrowed, 

 and it rontains a kernel, oily and mild to the 

 taste. It is a native of Syria, Barbarv, Persia, 

 and Arabia. It was brought from Syria to Italy 

 t>\ the Kmperor Vitellius, whence it found its 

 \\a\ to the south of France, where it is so far 

 naturalised as to aj)j>car, in some places, like a 

 native. (See l.'i-k) It is cultivated in the south 

 of France, and in Italy, for its fruit, which is 

 >ometimes eaten raw, but more frequently in a 

 dried .state, like almonds. They are most ge- 

 nerally used on the Continent as sugar-plums, 

 heim: covered with sugar, or with chocolate, under the name of diablotins : 

 creams and ices are also composed of them, coloured green with the juice 

 of spinach. Generally, the fruit is said to be a fortifier of the stomach, and 

 to diminish cough .s and colds. There is a nut imported from the West. 

 Indies, under the name of pistachia nut, which is the produce of quite a 

 ditierent plant, probably a palm. In British gardens, the tree is not much 

 planted, from its being generally supposed to require a wall ; but, in fa- 

 \onrable situations, it will grow as a standard or a bush ; as is proved by a 

 plant in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, which lias stood 

 there tor ,> or 6 years without any protection. It will grow in any common 

 tiarden soil, and may be propagated, either by nuts procured from abroad, or 

 even from the Italian warehouses in England, or bv cuttings. Miller says, 

 it' planted against high walls, with a warm aspect, or as standards in a shel- 

 tered situation, they will bear the cold of our ordinary winters very well ; but, 

 in severe frosts, they are often destroyed. The tree, he says, flowers, and pro- 

 duces fruit freely in England; but the summers are not warm enough to ripen 

 the- nuts. He mentions a tree, in the Bishop of London's garden at Fulham, 

 upwards of 40 years old, planted against a wall; ami another, which had been 

 planted as a standard, in the Duke of Richmond's grounds, at Goodwood, 

 in Su^ex, where it had stood many years without the slightest protection. 

 Till lately, there was a very fine specimen at Syon. The foliage of the tree is 

 so ornamental, that no conservative wall ought to be without one. 



T ^. /'. yV.Ri-Mu'xTin s Lin. The Turpentine Pistachia, "/ renetian t orC/iiau t 

 Turpentine Tree. 



I<l ntijicdtinn I. in. Spec , 14.1.1. ; Dec. Prod., 'J. p. ()4. ; Don's Mill , '2. p. (u. 



Si/n'.iii/im-n. T. vul^iris Timrn. Inxt.,~>lV. ; 1'. viTa Mill. Diet., No. 4. ; 1'istachicr TiTi'binthe, Fr. ; 



TfrJM-ntin 1'i-t.tcic, (irr. ; Terebinto, Ital. 

 l.,,i>nn-ins. Woodv. Med. Hot., -11.1. t. 1:1:;.; Ulackw, t. 47S. ; Dull. Arb., cd. 1. vol. 2. t. 87. 



SIT. Clmr., AT. Leaves deciduous, impari-pinnate, of about 7 leaflets, that 

 are ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the base, and at the tip acute and mucro- 

 nate. (Dee. /'rot!., ii. p. (>l.) A tree, growing to the height of 3()ft. in the 

 s'nith of F, 1 1 rope and north of Africa. Introduced in Ki.'Hj. 



I'm let ii. 



t I*. T. -.i s))lt(i'i'(H-('ir))(i Dec. Prod., ii. p. <il. The runnd-frnilcd Tur- 

 j>< nlnie I'lxlaeliHi Tree. Its fruit is larger and rounder than that of 

 the species. (./. linnli. 7//.s/., i. p. ;^7S. ic.) It is said to be a native 

 of the Fast. Keijuien has seen a cultivated plant of this variety in 

 a Lrarden at Nisincs. (Dee. /'rod., ii. p. (il. ) 



D'-xfripfifin, \e. The general appearance of the tree is that of/', vera, but 



the leaves arc larger, and the fruit only a third of the sixe ; the leaflets are, 



'-", lanceolate, instead of being snbovate. The fruit is round, not succulent. 



