CHAP. XLII. 



/K)SA V CE/E. CRAT/T/GUS. 



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16th editions of their Catalogue, 1833 and 1836, in identifying them with our 

 names. Most of the collections of Crata^gus, not only in Britain hut on the 

 Continent, having been procured from the Hackney arboretum, we think this 

 list will be of considerable utility both to nurserymen and amateurs. It is 

 proper to observe, that the numerous synonymes in this list, and in that 

 following (App. iv.), arise from the circumstance of Messrs. Loddiges col- 

 lecting annually, from all quarters, whatever appears from the name to be a 

 new sort, and growing the plants with the names attached to them which 

 were received with them, for 2 or 3 years, till it has been clearly proved 

 whether they are really new or not. It is only by this practice that collections 

 of any kind can be rendered complete. 



Those names which are applied to the same plants, both in the Catalogue of Messrs. Loddige?, and 

 in the Arboretum Britannicum, are in small capitals. 



App. iv. Alphabetical List of the Species and Varieties of Cra- 

 tafgus described in the Arboretum Britannicum, with the Names 

 which are appended to the Specimen Plants of these Sorts in the 

 Arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges. 



The use of this list is to make known to intended purchasers of sorts of 

 Cratae v gus, figured or described in the Arboretum BritaumcuiH, under what 

 names they must ask for them from Messrs. Loddiges. There are only a very 



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