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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III, 



there is a tree 35 ft. high ; another, of the same height, at Ken Wood ; and at Kew, one 30 ft. high. 

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

 tained the height of 25 ft., with a trunk 9 in. in diameter. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, a tree, 

 50 years planted, is 36ft. high. In Surrey, at Bagshot Park, one, 30 years planted, is 20 ft. high. 

 North of London, in Berkshire, at White Knights, a tree, 24 years planted, is 30 ft. high. In Cam- 

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

 at Kinmel Park, one, 20 years planted, is 24 ft. high. In Oxfordshire, in the Oxford Botanic 

 Garden, a tree, 40 years planted, is 30 ft. high. In Pembrokeshire, at Stackpole Court, there is a tree 

 70 years planted, and 40ft. high. In Shropshire, at Willey Park, a tree, 12 years planted, is 21 ft. 

 high. In Worcestershire, at Croome, a tree, 40 years planted, is 40 ft. high, the diameter of the 

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



O'rnus europafa in Scotland. In Ayrshire, at Blair, it is 25 ft. high, with a head 26 ft. in diameter. 

 In Banff'shire, at Gordon Castle, it is 26ft. high. In Clackmannanshire, in the garden of the Dollar 

 Institution, a tree, 12 years planted, is 14ft. 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 30ft. In Perthshire, in 

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

 the head 12ft. 



O'rnus europafa in Ireland. In the environs of Dublin, at Terenure, 10 years planted, it is only 

 6ft. high. In King's County, at Charleville Forest, 50 years planted, it is 34ft. 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 35 ft, on clayey soil; it flowers abundantly, but does not form any seed. 



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

 years planted, is 36 ft. high; at Clervaux, near Chatellerault, 29 years planted, it is 29ft. high. In 

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

 the stock, or base of the column, is 32 in., and that of the shaft proceeding from it, 16 in. In 

 Austria, at Vienna, in KosenthaPs Nursery, a tree, 14 years planted, is 15 ft. high; at Briick on 

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

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



2. O. (E.) ROTUNDIFO N LIA Pers. The round-leafleted Flowering, or Manna, 



Ash. 



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



Siinoni/mes. Fraxinus rotundifblia Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 445., Vahl Enum., 1. p. 49., Willd. Sp., 

 4. p. 1105., Willd. Baum.,p. 145. t. 2. f. 1.; F. mannifera Hort., Pluk. Aim., 182. f. &,Bauh.,Hist., 



Engravings. ' Willd. Baum., t. 2. f. 1. ; Pluk. Aim., p. 4. ; Bauh. Hist., 1. f. 2. ; and our fig. 1069. 



Spec. Char. t Sfc. Leaves with 3 5 pairs of roundish-ovate, bluntly serrated, 

 almost sessile leaflets, which are narrow at the base, 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 those 

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

 (Don's Mill., iv. p. 57.) A tree, native to Calabria and the 

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

 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 v a may be considered as applicable to this 

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



1069 



3. O. (E.) AMERICA V NA Pursh. The American Flowering Ash. 



Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. 



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



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

 Synonymes. F. americana Linn. 



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



Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 1070. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves 

 with 2 5 pairs of ob- 

 long or ovate-acumi- 

 nated, shining, serrated 

 leaflets, each 35 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, 



It 



