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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111. 



Soil, Situation, tyc. The Lombardy poplar will only thrive on a tolerably 

 good soil, and will not attain a large size, except in a situation where to a 

 good soil is joined proximity to water. In the climate of London, it grows 

 with such rapidity, that care is required, when it is introduced in ornamental 

 plantations, to thin it out, or cut it down, so that its form may not prepon- 

 derate in the landscape. In the north of England, and in most parts of 

 Scotland, it does not thrive. 



Statistics. Recorded Trees. Dr. Walker mentions a tree on the borders of a canal, near Brussels, 

 which, in 15 years, attained the height of 80ft., with a trunk from 7ft. to 8ft. in circumference. 

 Another tree, at Nisbet, in Berwickshire, had, in 1795, attained the height of 60 ft. in 26 years ; with 

 a trunk 6 ft. 1 in. in circumference at 4 ft. from the ground. The largest tree that Sir Thomas Dick 

 Lauder knows of in Scotland stands on the lawn, a little below the Castle cf Tarnawa, in Morayshire. 

 Phillips says the most extraordinary Lombardy poplars which he had seen were on the banks of the 

 Seine, near Rouen. They had not been planted more than 20 years ; " yet their height is such, as to 

 make it quite awful to walk in the avenues." (Syl. Flor., vol. ii. p. 133.) We wrote to our friend, the 

 Abbe Gosier of Rouen, for some account of these trees ; and his answer, dated March 4th, 1837, 

 states, on the authority of M. Dubreuil, Conservator des Promenades publiques, &c., that they 

 grow in alluvial soil, and are 150ft. high. A tree, planted in 1758, in the St. Peter's Nursery, Can. 

 terbury, was blown down, Mr. Masters informs us, during the hurricane of Nov. 29. 1836. The trunk 

 was upwards of 5 ft. in diameter at 1 ft. from the ground, and at 6ft. it was 4 ft. 4 in. in diameter. 

 It was nearly 100 ft. in height, very symmetrically formed, and from the northern and western 

 entrances to Canterbury was an object of considerable attraction. The wood of the trunk was in a 

 complete state of decay, and had produced an abundance of Polyporus igniarius for several years past. 

 Existing Trees In England, in the environs of London, at Ham House, Essex, it is 110ft. high, 

 with a trunk 3 ft. 10 in. in diameter ; at Gunnersbury Park, 45 years planted, it is 84 ft. high, diameter 

 of the trunk 2 ft. ; at Whitton, it is 115 ft. high. In Somersetshire, at Nettlecombe, 18 years old, it 

 is 62ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1| ft, and of the head 7| ft. ; in Surrey, at Walton upon 

 Thames, 52 years planted, it is 110ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4ft. 8 in. : in Cambridgeshire, 

 in the parish of Gamlingay, it is 90 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 10 in. ; in the Cambridge 

 Botanic Garden, it is 100 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 5 ft., and of the head 30 ft. : in Denbigh- 

 shire, at Llanbede Hall, 50 years planted, it is 73 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2| ft., and of the 

 head 12 ft. ; in Durham, at Southend, 18 years planted, it is 45 ft. high; in Gloucestershire, at Dodding- 

 ton, it is 95ft. high, diameter of the trunk 3ft.; in Lancashire, at Latham House, 40 years planted, it is 

 80 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft, and of the head 14ft. ; in Leicestershire, at Donnington 

 Park, 60 years planted, it is 88 ft. high : in Oxfordshire, in the Oxford Botanic Garden, it is 80 ft. 

 high, the diameter of the trunk 3-J ft, and of the head 18 ft. ; in the village of Great Tew are some 

 trees which are 125 ft. high, planted about '.50 years ago, by a labourer who still lives near them : 

 in Pembrokeshire, at Stackpole Court, 35 years old, it is 80ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 3 ft, 

 and that of the head 12ft ; in Radnorshire, at Belvoir Castle, 18 years old, it is 50 ft high j in 

 Staffordshire, at Rolleston Hall, it is 88ft. high, with a trunk 2J ft. in diameter; in Suffolk, at 

 Finborough Hall, 80 years planted, it is 90ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2ft., and of the head 

 80ft.: in Warwickshire, at Coombe Abbey, 70 years planted, it is 85ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk 3 ft., and of the head 12 ft. : in Worcestershire, at Hagley, 9 years planted, it is 19 ft. high ; 

 at Croome, 30 years planted, is 70 ft. high : in Yorkshire, at Grimston, 14 years planted, it is 60 ft. 

 high ; at Knedlington, 11 years planted, it is 34ft. high. In Scotland, in Lanarkshire, in the Glasgow 

 Botanic Garden, 16 years planted, it is 65 ft high ; in Renfrewshire, at North Barr, 30 years planted, 

 it is 70ft high ; in Clackmannanshire, in the garden of the Dollar Institution, 12 years planted, it 

 is 26ft ; in Inverness-shire, at Cowan, 45 years planted, it is 75ft high, the diameter of the trunk 

 1 ft., and of the head 12ft. ; in Perthshire, at Taymouth, it is 100 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 1 ft. 2 in., and of the head 12ft. ; in Ross-shire, at Brahan Castle, it is 70ft high, the diameter of 

 the trunk 2 ft In Ireland, in Gal way, at Coole, it is 30ft. high, with a trunk 9 in. in diameter. In 

 the Isle of Jersey, in Saunders's Nursery, 10 years planted, it is 36 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 1 ft., and of the head 19 ft In France, at Ermenonville, in the Isle of Poplars, are several 80ft. 

 high. In Belgium, at Ghent, in the Botanic Garden, 80ft. high. In Saxony, at Worlitz, 60 

 years old, it is 60ft. high, with a trunk 1J ft. in diameter. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the English 

 Garden, 25 years old, it is 45 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 12 in., and of the head 10 ft. In 

 Prussia, at Berlin, in the Botanic Garden, 60 years old, it is 60ft. high, with a trunk 2ft. in 

 diameter. In Italy, in Lombardy, at Monza, 40 years old, it is 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 

 2J ft., and of the head 10 ft. ; at Belgiosa, near Pavia, 80 years planted, it is 70 ft. high, the diameter 

 of the trunk 2 ft 7 in. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, from 5 ft. to 6 ft. in height, are 8s. per hun- 

 dred in the London nurseries ; at Bollwyller, from 50 to 60 cents each. 



% 12. P. ANGI LA N TA Ait. The angled-branchcd, or Carolina, Poplar. 



Identification. Ait Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 407., ed. 2., 5. p. 396. ; Michx. Arb., 3. ; North Amer. 

 Sylva, 2. p. 224. ; Pursh FI. Amcr. Sept., 2. p. 619.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



