CHAP. XCVII. 



E LIE AGNA^CE /E. tflPPO'PHAE. 



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which are ripe in September, and remain on the tree as long as the leaves, 

 and frequently till the following spring. 



Statistics. In the environs of London, the largest trees are those at Syon, one of which is 33 ft. 

 high, with a trunk 11 in. in diameter, and a fine round head 17 ft. in diameter. At Kew, a male 

 plant, near the palace, is 25 ft. high. In Oxfordshire, at Oxford, in the Botanic Garden, 10 years 

 planted, it is 15ft. high. In Rutlandshire, at Belvoir Castle, 18 years planted, it is 15ft. high. In 

 Suffolk, at Ampton Hall, 12 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. In Yorkshire, in the Hull Botanic 

 Garden, 10 years planted, it is 12ft. high. In Scotland, in Banffshire, at Huntley Lodge, 12 years 

 planted, it is 20ft high. In Argyllshire, at Toward Castle, 13 years planted, it is 14ft high. In 

 Sutherlandshire, at Dunrobin Castle, 13 years planted, it is 5 ft. high. In Ireland, in the Glasnevin 

 Bot;mic Garden, Dublin, 30 years planted, it is 12 ft. high ; at Cypress Grove, Dublin, it is IS ft. high. 

 In the King's County, at Charleville Forest, 10 years planted, it is 15ft. high. In Galway, at Coole, 

 it is 28 ft. high. In Louth, at Oriel Temple, 25 years planted, it is 19 ft. high. In Sligo, at Makree 

 Castle, 10 years planted, it is 5 ft. high. In France, near Paris, at Sceaux, 10 years planted, it is 15 ft. 

 high; in the Botanic Garden at Avranches, 10 years planted, it is 16ft. high. In Germany, in 

 Hanover, at Harbke, 6 years planted, it is 5ft. high. In Saxony, at Worlitz, 46 years planted, it is 

 20ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the Botanic Garden, 24 years planted, it is 18 ft. high. 

 In Austria, near Vienna, at Briick on the Leytha, 40 years planted, it is 16ft. high. In Prussia, 

 near Berlin, at Sans Souci, 20 years planted, it is 16 ft high. In Sweden, at Stockholm, in the Govern- 

 ment Garden, 15 years planted, it is 7 ft. high. In Russia, in the Crimea, where, according to 

 Descemet, it is employed, as in some parts of France, to fix drifting sands, and protect the seeds of 

 Plnus Pinaster, which are sown on them, it grows with great vigour. In Italy, at Monza, near 

 Milan, 21 years planted, it is 12ft. high. 



Varieties. 



34 H. R. 2 angmtifolia Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; see the plate of this tree 

 in our last Volume, which is a portrait of a tree, of the female sex, in 

 Messrs. Loddiges's arboretum, taken in October, 1834. Its leaves 

 are obviously more narrow than those of the species ; the young 

 branches are pendulous ; and the tree is highly ornamental. There 

 are plants, both of the male and of the female of this variety, in 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden, and in the collection of Messrs. 

 Loddiges. 



* H. R. 3 sibirica, H. sibirica Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, appears to differ 

 very little, if at all, from the species ; but, the plant not being in a 

 healthy state, it may be more distinct than we suppose it to be. A 

 male plant of H. Rhamnoides in the London Horticultural Society's 

 arboretum, which flowered in 1835, had its flower buds smaller and 

 earlier in blossom than those of the other; and this, perhaps, may 

 be H. R. sibirica; the plants of species which are common to 

 Siberia, and the west of Europe, always flowering earlier in this 

 country than plants of the same species which are indigenous to it, 

 or to Central Europe generally. 

 Description, $c. In its wild state, the sea buckthorn, sallowthorn, or wil- 



lowthorn, rises, with ligneous stems, to the height of 8 ft. or 10 ft. ; but, in a 



state of culture, and when trained to a single stem, it grows twice or thrice that 



height. Its branches are numerous, irregular, 



and covered with a brown bark. The flowers are 



small, solitary, and appear before the leaves, or 



coeval with them. The berries are produced on 



the female plant in great abundance, when the 



male plant stands near it, but not otherwise. 



There is said to be a variety with red berries 



which Miller saw on the sand-banks in Holland ; 



but we have not heard of its being in cultivation. 



The species is found wild in England, upon cliffs 



above the level of the sea, from Kent to York- 

 shire ; and is plentiful between Yarmouth and 



Cromer, on the flat sandy coast. In Russia, it 



is found in low, wet, and sandy situations, more 



particularly in the subalpine districts about 



Caucasus; and it is abundant throughout great 



part of Tartary. " //ippophae Rhamnoides 



grows in profusion all along the course of the 



Arve ; and Deile'phila (Sphinx) hipp6phaes is now so plentiful, in consequence 



of the numbers of it collected and bred by the peasants, that a specimen costs 



