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tea is nearly as hardy ^s the sweet bay (iaurus n6bilis), and will, 

 in a few years, be a common evergreen in our shrubberies in the 

 south of England. Among the hardy plants is a fine specimen 

 of ^^bies Clanbra- 

 sWidna, above 20 

 years old, and form- 

 ing a tuft not above 

 a foot high, and a 

 foot in diameter. It 

 is now (1836) 2 ft. 

 3 in. high, the dia- 

 meter of the trunk 

 2^ in., and that of 

 the head 3 ft. 6 in. 

 Such a dwarf is pe- 

 culiarly appropriate 

 to a Chinese gar- 

 den. We observed 

 in other parts of 

 the pleasure-ground 

 various plants of 

 the Pinus Cembra 

 [the largest was 20 

 feet high, in 1836] 

 {fig. 34.), which is 

 the aphernousli tree 

 of the Tyrol, so 

 much recommended 

 by Harte for cul- 

 tivation in this country, and noticed by Lord Byron as the tree 

 found at a greater elevation on the Alps than any other of the 

 pine and fir tribe. 



" But, from their nature, will the tannen grow 

 Loftiest on loftiest and least sheltered rocks." 



It is a very slow-growing tree, but attains a considerable size, 

 and, when full grown, the timber is of excellent quality. The 

 height of this tree in England, according to our Return Papers 

 received in 1835, varies from 40 ft. to 50 ft. The largest spe- 

 cimens are in the park of Wolcot Hall, in Shropshire. 



[In 1836, there were at Cashiobury, the hemlock spruce 

 {Ahies canadensis), 28 ft. high ; the cedar of Lebanon, some 

 plants of which, only 30 years planted, have attained the height 

 of 35 ft. ; tulip trees, 20 years planted, which have attained the 

 height of 30 ft. ; Virgilia lutea, 19 ft. high ; Gymn6cladus cana- 

 densis (an idea of which tree may be formed from^^. 36., which is 

 a portrait of a full-grown tree of that species at Syon); Photinia 



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