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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



Vernon Arms, in Pleasant Row, Pentonvllle, has the branches trained on horizontal trellises, at the 

 height of about 7 ft. from the ground, over 28 seats, and 14 tables, covering a space 36ft. long by 

 21 ft. wide. (Gard. Mag., vol. x. p. 385.) At York House, Twickenham, there is a weeping ash, 

 \vhichhasbeen 50 years planted, and is 15ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk is 12 in., and of the head 

 21 ft. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, there is a tree, 50 years planted, and 22 ft. high, the trunk 

 1 ft. 1 in. in diameter, and the head 28ft. In Somersetshire, at Hinton House, there is a tree, 20 

 years planted, which is 19ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head 25 ft. In Wiltshire, 

 at Bowood, a weeping ash, 35 years planted, is 20 ft. high, with the diameter of the head 30 ft. In 

 Hertfordshire, at Cheshunt, a tree 22ft. high has a head 24 fti in diameter. In Derbyshire, at 

 Chatsworth, there is a weeping*ash of large size, which the Duke of Devonshire had transplanted from 

 the nursery of Messrs. Wilson, near Derby. The tree, according to the newspapers, was 50 years 

 old when it was removed, and, including the eartli about its roots weighed nearly 8 tons. (See Gard. 

 Mag., vol. x. p. 386.) In Ireland, in the environs of Dublin, there are several good specimens, the 

 best of which seems to be in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, which, after being 35 years planted, is 

 35ft. high, with a head 13 ft. in diameter. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the neighbourhood of London, are, 2 years' 

 seedlings, 3*. per 1000 : transplanted plants, 1 ft. or more in height, 10*. 

 per 1000 ; 2 ft. high, 20s. ; and 3 ft. high, 40*. : and the varieties are, in general, 

 from 1*. 6d. to 2*. 6d. each. At Bollwyller, the varieties of the common ash 

 are from 1 franc to 1 franc and 5 cents each ; and at New York they are 50 

 cents each. 



2. F. (E.) HETEROPHY'LLA Vahl. The various-leaved Ash. 



Identification. Vahl Enum., 1. p. 53. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 54. 



Synonymes. F. simplicifolia Willd. Sp., 4. p. 1098., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, Bcrl. Baumz., p. 121 



t. 3. f. 3., Smith Eng. Bot., t. 2476. ; F. monophylla Desf. Arb., 1. p. 102. ; F. simplicifblia llort. ; 



F. excelsior {3 diversifdlia Ait. ; F. excelsior var. i Lam. Diet., 2. p. 554. ; F. excelsior ft hetero- 



phylla Dec. ; F. integrifblia and diversitblia Hort. 

 Engravings. Berl. Baum., p. 121. t. 3. f. 3. ; Eng. Bot., t. 2476. ; our fig. 1050. ; and the plate of this 



tree in our last Volume. 



Distinctive Char., $c. Leaves simple or trifoliate, dentately serrated. Samara 

 oblong-lanceolate, 1 in. long, obtuse and emarginate at the apex. Leaves 

 usually simple, but sometimes 

 with 3 or 5 leaflets, 34 in. 

 long, ovate, subcordate, or acu- 

 minate at the base and apex. 

 Branches dotted. Buds black. 

 Perhaps only a variety of F. ex- 

 celsior. (Don's Mill., iv. p. 54.) 

 A tree, from 30 ft. to 40 ft. high, 

 flowering in April and May. It 

 is a native of Europe; in Eng- 

 land, in woods. There is a tree 

 of this variety at Syon, 61 ft. 

 high ; one in the Edinburgh Bo- 

 tanic Garden, 34 ft. high; and one 

 in Higgins's Nursery, Tipperary, 

 which, 25 years planted, is 40 ft. 

 high. Some botanists consider 

 this kind of ash as a species; but 

 Sir Thomas Dick Lauder states 



that Mr. M'Nab, of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, sowed seeds produced 

 by the tree in that garden, supposed to have been originally planted by 

 Sutherland, and found that the plants had pinnated leaves ; and Mr. Sin- 

 ning, garden inspector of Poppilsdorf, near Bonn, sowed seeds of the 

 common ash, which he gathered in a distant forest, many of which came 

 up with simple leaves. Nearly 1000 of these plants were transplanted, and 

 left to become trees ; when they were about 8 ft. high, above 20 of them 

 were observed to have simple leaves, and almost as many to have only 3 

 leaflets ; though occasionally they showed a greater number. (Attgewcinc 

 Garten Zeitung, vol. iii. p. 6.) It is curious to observe the number of 

 different names which have been applied to this variety of ash, by different 

 botanists; and instructive to remark that the majority of them have con- 

 sidered it a distinct species. When such a very obviously distinct variety 

 as this has received from botanists so many names, what may we not 

 expect in the case of obscure varieties ? 



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