98 KINDS OL TREES, 



Thefe have hitherto been confidered merely as 

 ornamental trees in this country, having been 

 chiefly confined to the decoration of grounds, and 

 even but feldom planted in the park. The dif- 

 aftrous effects of froft on the largefl American 

 planes in England, thofe in Richmond Park, at 

 Kew, at Sion Houfe, at Stowe, at Painhill, and 

 feveral other places, has alarmed proprietors of 

 this fine tree. It is evidently lefs hardy than the 

 Afiatic plane ; becaufe, jn many inftances, we 

 have obferved trees of both fpecies (landing near 

 each other ; the Eaftern kind being nothing in- 

 jured by the effects of the froft in 1809,* while 

 the trees of the Weftern kind were either entirely 

 killed, or fo much injured that their recovery was 

 defpaired of. It is very fmgular, that of this fpe- 

 cies, the larger trees only were killed. Trees 

 of from twenty to twenty-five feet in height, 

 were little hurt ; and f mailer ones nothing at 

 all ; at lead in every inflance that came under our 

 obfervation. We did not obferve or hear of a 



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* In the neighbourhood of, London, in particular, in 

 June 1809, a severe frost fell, which caused the above dis- 

 aster. The trees were just breaking leaf; the foliage was 

 killed , they pushed late in the season ; an early autumn 

 frost again destroyed their feeble shoots : their juices, there- 

 fore stagnated. The trees made an effort to push in 1810 ; 

 but, failing, finally languished, and died. 



