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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111. 



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& 3. C. (B.) ORIENTALS Lam. The Oriental Hornbeam. 



LU-nt Ration. Lam. Encyc., 1. p. 700. } Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 468. ; N. Du Ham., 2. p. 199. 

 Sunonyme. C. duinensis Scop. Cam., t. 60. 

 Encravings. Scop. Cam., t. 60. ; Dend. Brit, t. 98. ; and our 

 fig. 193?. v 



Spec. Char. y $c. Bracteas of the fruit ovate, 

 unequal at the base, undivided, somewhat 

 angular, unequally serrated. (Willd.) A 

 low tree or shrub, growing to the height 

 of 12ft. ; a native of Asia Minor and the 

 Levant. Introduced in 1739. The Eastern 

 hornbeam is a dwarf tree, rarely rising 

 above 10ft. or 12ft. in height. As it 

 shoots out into numerous widely spreading, 

 horizontal, irregular branches, it cannot be 

 readily trained up with a straight clear 

 trunk. The leaves are much smaller than 

 those of the common hornbeam, and the 

 branches grow closer together ; so that it is 

 even still better adapted for forming a 

 clipped hedge than that species. It was 

 introduced by Miller, in 1739; but, though 

 it is very hardy, and easily propagated by 

 layers, it has never been much cultivated 

 in our nurseries. There are plants at 

 Messrs. Loddiges's. 



Statistic*. In Yorkshire, at Grimston, 14 years planted, it is 25 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, 

 in Rosenthal's Nursery, 16 years planted, it is 12ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the English 

 garden, 14 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 24 years old, it is 26 ft. high, diameter 

 of the trunk 9 in., and of the head 20 ft. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 2s. Gd, each. 



App. i. Species or Varieties of Cdrpinus not yet introduced into 

 European Gardens. 



Cdrpinus (B.) Carpinlzza Hort. Fl. Aust., 2., p. 



Leaves crcnately serrated; scales of the 



pin . 



strobiles revolute, 3-cleft ; the middle segment the longest, and quite entire. A native of the woods 

 of Transylvania. TheTransylvanians distinguished this sort from C. Ztetulus, and call it Carpinizza 



C. viminea Lindl.,\Vall. PI. As. Har., 1. 106., 

 Royle Illust., p. 341., and our fig. 1D38., has 

 the leaves ovate-lanceolate, much acuminated, 

 doubly serrated ; petioles and branchlets gla- 

 brous ; bracteas fruit-bearing, ovate-oblong, 

 laciniate at the base, somewhat entire at the 

 apex, bluntish. (Lindl. MSS.) A native of 

 the mountains of Nepal, in Sirmore and 

 Kamaon ; and, according to Royle, on Mus- 

 souree, at the height of 6500 ft. above the level 

 of the sea; flowering and fruiting from Janu- 

 ary to April. "This fine tree is very like the 

 common alder. Its wood is considered dur- 

 able, and is used for ordinary building purposes 

 by the natives of Nepal. The slender pendu- 

 lous branches are frequently attacked by a sort 

 of coccus, which produces numerous elevated 

 tubercles, or warts. The structure of the nut 

 resembles that of C. fictulus, as described and 

 figured by Gacrtner, except in the following 

 respect : The cavity is filled with what ap- 

 pears to me an entire and homogeneous, fleshy, 

 almost colourless substance, exceedingly like a 

 perisperm ; in which are suspended, towards 

 the apex of the seed, two minute embryones. 

 It is possible, that, notwithstanding the most 

 careful and repeated examination, I may have 

 mistaken the cotyledons of the ripe seed for a perisperm ; but I have invariably seen two minute 

 embryones lodged within the upper end of the fleshy substance which fills the nut." (Wall. PI. As. 

 Rar., t 106.) From the elevation at which this tree grows, it will probably be found hardy in 

 British gardens. 



C. fagitiea Lindl., Wall. PI. As. Rar., 2. p. 5., has the leaves ovate-oblong, acute, sharply serrated, 

 and glabrous; petioles and branchlets downy; bracteas fruit-bearing, somewhat rhomboid, with 

 large teeth, acute, reticulated. It is nearly allied to f. orit-ntalis, but differs in the form and margin 

 of the leaf, and in the bracteas. (Hall. Pi, As. liar., 2. p. 5.) 



