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Half-hardy Species. 

 + Croton rosmarinifolia Cunn. * _] 



fig. 2523. 2585 

 + Adelia Acidoton * -I fig. 2525. 2585 



- 2586 



Broussonetftf papyrifera - 2586 



+ B. p. 3 fructu albo ft - - 2586 



Ulmdcete. - 2586 



ZJ'lmus americana - - 2587 



+ U. a. foliis variegatis $ - 2587 



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Salicdcece. - 2537 

 + $alix coluteoides Mirb. & 



fig. 2529. 2588 

 + S. sitchensis Hort. ft - - 2588 



Betuldcete. - 2589 



fig. 2531. 2589 

 + A. castaneaefolia Mirb. % _J f . 2532. 2590 



- 2590 

 + Quercus C. laciniata fig. 2534. 2591 



APPENDIX. 



PRICED CATALOGUES OF TREES AND SHRUBS, CONTRIBUTED BY BRITISH 

 AND CONTINENTAL NURSERYMEN. 



MANY gentlemen are deterred from purchasing the rarer kinds of trees and shrubs, 

 from an idea that exorbitant prices will be charged for them by the nurserymen. 

 This idea has arisen from various causes. First, because new and rare articles in 

 the nursery business, as well as in every other, must necessarily be charged higher 

 than those for which there is already an established demand, and the modes of 

 propagating which are already familiar to the cultivator : secondly, because large 

 plants, or as large as can be procured of the new species, are frequently ordered ; and 

 these, of course, are few, and consequently dear : and, thirdly (and this is one of 

 the principal causes), because long credits are frequently taken, instead of paying 

 regularly at stated periods, say at the end of every year ; and this is attended with 

 more inconvenience in the case of new plants than of old ones, because for the former 

 the nurseryman has generally expended ready money. Now, all these new and rare 

 plants, however high-priced they may be when they are first introduced, in two or three 

 years, should there be a demand for them, fall to the price of common plants of 

 similar natures : for example, Paeoma Moutan joapaveracea in 1825 was six guineas 

 a plant ; but for the last seven years it has only been charged from half a crown to 

 five shillings, according to the size of the plant ; and Wistaria sinensis, which 

 was at that time two guineas a plant, has been sold for Is. 6d. Whosoever there- 

 fore will wait two or three years after a new plant is introduced, can hardly fail of 

 being able to purchase it at a moderate price. 



A great improvement in the nomenclature of hardy fruit trees and fruit shrubs 

 has been made in British nurseries, by reference to the collection in the Hor- 

 ticultural Society's Garden ; and especially by country nurserymen obtaining grafts 

 from the Society, with the names adopted in the Society's Fruit Catalogue 

 attached. Till lately, the same attention was not paid to ornamental trees and shrubs 

 that has, ever since the Society possessed a garden, been paid to fruit trees ; but 

 a reformation in this department is now going forward, and, if London nurserymen 

 were to compare their plants and names with the names and plants in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Garden, they might be enabled to render their catalogues of them as 

 perfect, and their plants as true to their names, as is now the case with their cata- 

 logues and plants of fruit trees. Country nurserymen generally come to London 

 once a year, and, by bringing specimens of their trees and shrubs with them, they 

 might ascertain the correct names by comparing them with the living plants in the 

 Chiswick Garden. As cuttings for propagation, or to be used as botanical speci- 

 mens for determining the kinds, will, probably, in a short time be spared from the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, country nurserymen, Fellows of the Society, might 



