282 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [APRIL 26, 1856, 
pa whence these slips were derived. By him it w 
Me to be a foreign sche i bat all scienfifie 
that the spe ecies |  Arbore ritann: He s that he has ¢ Dendrobium Pierardi var. atifolium. The number 
“13 tab are bly a se lon a the kind usually called ef spikes on this plant is 26, many of them Py feet i 
pert Plana production of pers 2’ United | States, Of these | oceiden talis, Does he mean true occidentalis (the | length, and few less than 3 feet, each well furnished 
two Grapes the best es are made in Ohio. We may Py ag pint)» om, what we are now considering acerifolia ?| with flowers. We h il of 
also mention that aT anothe r variety of |“ Dr. Klo * Ch ronici cle, dendron Gibsoni, which measures 7 feet om the pot 
the “natives,” produces an extraordinary fine wine, the March 29, 1036, p2 d 3 feet through ; this is, I should ink one of ie 
flavour being like the e purest Amon ntillado, ne Ro. oya a oai a ai aoea fas Simsi the t beautiful plants of the so The ; flowers are 
h kind sta “ P, orientalis L., var. acerifolia, large ae literally clothe the plant t from the base to the 
In ye the American wines with those of teat Ea sctflin Willd.) from Spain, by Ruiz. I have had this Rhododendron in m; Š 
i e i in| But may thi t be a cultivated specimen fm the hee e years, and would recommend every one to grow it 
ll of them. Sparkling Catawba is Botanic Se = Madrid? Nowhere, as far as I can | who cares a mates about early spring flowering plants, 
not yonn can Isabella be jassar i ith | find, is any Platanus recorded as a native of Spain. Yet | S. Eaton, April 23 
any nihan wines Sa in the apo Ii a peculiarity not crt is there another var, of P. orientalis called Sundials. —These are made as chapi of stone wł 
of these wines that no spuriou papel thi rd Plan me in Dr. Klotzsch’s list) h t i cement. Any circular plan 
to imitate = sheen, and in puri ity ta delicacy there is gathered by Ruiz; but P. aceri- | is cheap, as it can be turned on a lathe. They can À „be 
kera — oo equal them. folia er ange said | iag poa “to be a aaa of the Í 
expensive wine in Europe, the “ Tokay,” Levant) i earns d, in the ap ed. of Hort. Kew., Spanish 
h 85 Plane T Indeed the more we pi, ki our to dis- 
te, # Sull Catawba” shows a per centage of 9 50 only, cover the pon of this tree e (P. acer: a Psy the greater baa 3 pion] j 
always understood to be P. orientalis. s, an nd which a; agree magnificent t object, , and perfeetly unique in appearance 
with the de iyi wh Pa orientalis anen in Loudon’s There s also now in flower at this place a fine specimen 
being, in fact, f evidence in favour of its being a 
in any pian in the world. native of the Old World; even Tournefort (in whom the 
One re fact in passing. the Patent Office | name le originated—supposing ours to be identical with 
By 
Report se the year 1853, „it i siated 1 thabl m. a: of | his) calls it “ Platanus orientalis Aceris folio.” The 
author of the botanical notes to Hunter's edition of 
Value of wines grown in the Unitea cn AETA pve Evelyn’s Sylva (probably Ph. Miller), 2d ed. part ii. 
Tobacco . 1/990,000 ,, p. 54-55, has two species of Plane (P. orientalis 
But a alone for the production pot i Grapes | and P. occidentalis), and “two vars., the | ope the 
by birds Si lane ;” 
a a fixed oil, similar to Olive oil, i Je fi the bat makes no allusion to their native Leen, nor does - 
in Parma, Lom ibardy, fl he say of ae a spees they o be considered 
e ewings varieties. an e Tirak, “rem ark in the 
rel 
of the Vines are nwo saleable p paca a new vine-| Gardeners’ Chronicle following 
yards ; the leaves can be ores ed as and the ~ l.c. :—“ The late Professor Lik once assured us that our 
are fond of poai The dnent eon s ink is made fenm common park Plane (P. acerifolia) was a Greek plant. 
the carbon of the charred stalks of gi Vines. "And fro But this was merely an obiter dictum.” Another country 
I ims theh ifolia, as ther 
I now find claims onour of a EAA olia, as e 
be without. grdt the Raisins ! Whether indigenous, yit, taly. Ten is Flora 
should Neapolitana p. 265, included on 
—P. 
in our States, or — m some other unknown reason, we entalis, mn an acknowledge 3 to be a introduced 
import more ns than all the rest of the world put fe from Asia ; P. aceri ifoli at W. “ Native place ; 
ogether ! ceased h for the Vine asa Abruzzo. I have e seen 
prosperity. qe Book of Agriculture. dof the A S f 
near Ascoli, p Ya ee od rea dygr 
and “ Platanus cunea ata, rh ” (said by Willdenow. bs ‘fe 
Home Coinage Thsed wh 2 i ative place ; this i is the com: 
„ Occidental Plane.—Although I | a tice ( with us, and Bh along 
identalPlane,” | in Cals à 
yet now as "then my object is to elicit information My her! able: Atron of oe of Abis j at Be orien- 
Ponti not ra tha at, but a another and more | taj iis is very liable to vary with mee ro ; and 
kind but very similar, often known as Platanus | indeed it is this form of leaf which is figured for true 
aceritolia, yet conto unded wit i and generally called | orientalis Aa , Watson's Dendrologia Bri 
, c gia Britannica, Tab. EA ie 1 
ayori he Occidental Plane. It ip scarcely to |101. Tenore’s remarks on the above three trees are as | | š | 
expected that in the winter season the subject should | follows : “+ "When they are seen together, and have been | 
rere much attention; neverthele: ess it has been | dis- cultiva ted for r seyeral years, they are recognisable 
your Jour ut any iticaliy. We have them in the same bought very cheap and good at the Box station of the 
bar gual LT have had ate communications, which will | d T ORE W Rai 
ogel he trust, Lay pave the way toa more correct | Leda character, The one last planted being the | Pr portio A A wits giv is and something square 
a Farin of ng trees. Mr. E AN, TN garana | P, cuneata, I felt uncertain all it attained to be a tree | above ton receive the dial, Site rade a very few po nage 
arlei Bechington y SRIF INS IRE a tracin, which will tere ou to j 
yay a very fine Poland which’ used to be called the | first two species ; but I was soon convinced of the con- | Pr it pia pedia ya Delve Somerset. f 
Virginian Mie Sige A sted apt “Ee the | trary, Itremained of muc aes gg ar atajar mi allits| Cherries Preserved by Burial. On Mant ay last I 
of Cawdor, at Stockport | parts, the leaves especially, continued t ion employed a man to excavate a portion of an ald Stra wW- 
SE 
keshire If there is good authority for ot 
P} y me a the tree, berry 
the name, it ought to be the true Platanus occidentalis, | which came from the royal garden of Caserta, un be “i oy S$ Rite ae = an ps bi y ferara Ai ising x 
ee kai should be glad to hear about it in the tenting the name of P. hispanica, and which we had kept for eae hag, fei and still retaining a dang 3 
aii? ik season, and to receive specimens recent | 20 years in our arboretum side by side with P. aceri How y have iain there T Ea not. 
or dried. Dr. Lindley finds in his herbarium a speci- ae and P. orientalis, pti to be referred to ny yt t pen, Eise for four 
men qui thi appea! to the Plane anh which has ad piven cuneata, Take n together with the stature of the Ah years, nA pe riod d uring w which I e been in occupa- f 
rise a ia appe: the Garden Mande rom | and with the characters of the foliage | tion, I intend trying whether peti yet retain the 
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mpression that serve to discriminate it from the two befi tioned ou 
it is sir "Asiatic origin, though I cannot at all subscribe | species, the leave at nga cut ap pa i ose of Platan ‘a fn YP fas A pe think Ie a a ik oe ey Pye 
So Hie ap pin nign, gi, Aiton, pE Lou! z ne eae re orientalis, an wll by e of | test They appear to belong to the variety termed 
zank if as iety of P. orientalis, from which 1t/ P, acerifolia, especially b; three lob caroons. h een 
differs toto aE ramification, foliage, constitu- | bined in a so form, ; T that by E fecal e a Ue ie ohne, Calley Me wis Hp "et 
w. a f lah qi 
P 
hie f, PI 
a y ol t cim: 
Dr. poe from Cashmere are the true orientalis, | talis.” } lit f P. acerifoli 
‘ the 
and that Men Ra He to be cultivat ed. Your | woods Le aos sdorad) ceri sinh oi 
correspondent « T. » Herts, si (Gar rde » gy ” Chronicle, o, doubtful, I T should To “tha PE ki para gala Societies 
1856, Feb. 9, p. 85 ¢) p Acqua. Sa st eam ot 
our P, acerifolia, dh i po pe 
ei thin arrived a HORTICULTURAL, April 1 22.—Sir Philip de Best 
from the well- known Orienta: and Occidental "Plane, and the fires vee P. ‘acer “‘hongh nearest in,| Grey Egerton, Bart., MP P., in the chair. 
t eal charac s to P. entalis , is nevertheless od buen: mereme limaa were exhibited” bens ais 
n the sum pH + | quit j d by t ‘those who hay occasion. Foremo: t them may be mentioned 
ett! a : 
“t W. Strickland” P Gardener? Chr onicle, be aA es id attention t an example peautitully in ar Foner, of the a Sikkim 
t the ~ R} ? 
Fes 
ke those grown about London, and not the as Il as hat compen in heey ur, 
apn the Oriental Plane.” This is ‘diver ey Mr. foliag: k An an ple Ploy are nen ge as fro fe d was 
entham in the following number of the Gardeners’ aa | to of if psn are any old erni h id bi 7 wes 
y o trees of true P. worked standard high pos a ybri Catan iense 
hronicle by the statement that “the large Plane serili in the country. Our own rich herbarium | mentioned, however, that the same specie s had blos- 
ees ere, as we those t! ed i o ir at 
ood i 
o 
riental, with leaves slg deeper am than either the and the fertile heads of flowers being solitary), P. Standish and Noble, from whom this plant came, Aho 
Moricand — aps too near P. occidentalis), sent Gaultheria furens, a hardy nite are “ike 
xs: 
th E x ’ 
or anhaa z aniy) E TA agl got md 2 rance | an om od P. eee of Nuttall (P. californica, Benth.), ). | havi ng much resemblan ping Gans wisi ntal fruit. 
dedat Nee E> kat e E Es 18° o) con- Remarkable Plants now in flower at Enville, —There Of Sikkim, Bhoian, pa Keni aae, 
firms statemen : goes |i interesi 
on to compare the cultivation of Platanus scidentalis | fon sions :—Height 5 feet diameter 6 | feet, consisting of Hooker, ntalli, i i 
with thet of P, orientalis in North Yorkshire, saying |x num! Poring S anay blossom, 97. T} 7 of which. there i ict 
Mise? - peis is eas cer, ti i > been here upwards of two years, is in all respects a Edgaworthi, It is = hs a, Natal ia Bs 
¥ the two.’ mean P. rifolia? “J. B. has t yet blossomed in this , A ET 
Weiss ” > i + Hort. Kew., ed. 1, P. acerifolia Will kan . Dalhousiæ itself. 
March 1, 1856, p. 134 b) WA i caw very foe| fo ie subcordatin obi Ì obis triamgularibus integarrimis | ATE sti, ier à +z Haise. 
ane ee AP ag > TY vel rem eee Fs is utrinque glabris subtus venis pubern lis, by foliage is also ey it is z 
Plane trees at Chart Park, Deepdene (apparently those | | nervis ad folii basin pate us; trunci cortice lævi (nec rimoso | be hardy, therefor asid to eal 
CORE AE E E SAE, vite: be bee nee fmgoso), frustaile irregularibus plantis sponte Aefnentibus | nog fail to ery valuable acquisition Like N Nut 
oo 2? Ten, Nothing is said about the flowers R. 
Hookeri is also a Bhotan sp ecies ; this has 
p. 102 rees | the Nee py a little known species, 
an the plain of Buyukdere, on the ajhai. have! leaves tained, and that we want a ue defined ifi which are Pris and showy, wh ve 
* See Gardeners’ Uhronicie for Feb. 2, 1856, p. 
