638 Arhoricultural Notices. 



A'ceT saccharinum is described as having leaves silvery beneath, and a 

 variety as platanifolio. (Hort. Coll., p. 2.) This last is probably A. s. 

 nigrum, noticed in our Volume for ISil, p. 397., as being in the Paris 

 Garden, with the leaves not in the slightest degree velvety beneath, and 

 uniting with difficulty when inarched. We hope some spirited nurseryman 

 will procure plants. 



Jrundo Donax flowered in Septembei', 1762, and does not die down every 

 year, as Miller states. (H. C. p. 5.) 



Castanea vesca. " Mem. * Sept. 16. 1758. In Writtle Park, three miles on 

 the left of Ingatstone, in Essex, belonging to Lord Petre, is a stately 

 chestnut tree, which is now flourishing, that I measured, 5 ft. above the 

 ground, and found its girth 45 ft.— P. ColBison.' My friend, Edward 

 Forster, informs me that this noble tree has been gone many years ; and 

 that the tradition in the neighbourhood is, that fifteen deer could shelter 

 under it. By another memorandum, it appears that the possessor of Mr. 

 Collinson's copy of Martyn's Hist. Plant, will find two drawings of this 

 splendid tree bound up with it ; and he has added a short description of it 

 to his history of the Tortsworth chestnut, in the Gentleman\ Magazine for 

 1766." (i7. e*. p. 10.) 



Ceanothus americanus. A very pretty tea is made from the dried leaves, 

 good for inveterate coughs, and shortness of breath. {H. C. p. 10.) 



Cedrus Libani. ''Mem. ' 1751. Our two large cedars of Lebanon, on each 

 side the grass walk, were given me by the Duke of Richmond, and brought 

 from Goodwood.' ' Six cedars of Lebanon, five years old, in the field, 

 Ap. 30. 1761, given me by Mr. Clark, all grew,' and thus it is probable 

 that the ages of the two noble trees, which remain at Mill Hill, may be nearly 

 ascertained. See Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. vol. i. p. 56. In the sixth 

 edition of the Gardener's Dictionary, it is said that the cedars at the Chelsea 

 Garden were planted in 1683, when about 3 ft. high ; and to this Mr. Col- 

 linson has added the following remark : ' Mr. Miller concludes that these 

 cedars, at 3 ft. high, were five years old, and they undoubtedly were the 

 first in England.' It appears from Evelyn, that, in 1664, the cedar was 

 unknown in England." (i/. C. p. 10.) 



Cerasus lusitanica. " Mem. ' The Portugal laurel, now the greatest ornament 

 of our gardens, was, in the year 1719, first brought from Portugal to Mr. 

 Fairchild, a famous gardener for rarities, at Hoxton, and was for some 

 years kept in a greenhouse; it was exposed by degrees, and has since been 

 found to endure all weathers.'" (^H. C. p. 11.) The date of introduction 

 in the catalogues is 1648, which would thus appear to be a mistake. 



Compt6ni« «splenif61ia. The leaves make a fine tea, and, used as hops, give 

 a good flavour to beer. {H. C. p. 14.) 



Cornus florida. See Arb. Brit. vol. i. p. 55. "Mem. ' 1761, May 17. Invited 

 by Mr. Sharp, of South Lodge, on Enfield Chase, to dine and see the 

 Virginia dogwood ; the calyx of the flowers (wonderful to see) are flowers 

 as large as figured by Catesby, and (what is strange) it is the only tree that 

 has these flowers amongst many hundreds that I have seen, and it began to 

 bear them in 1759.' " {H. C. p. 15.) 



The Fulham. Nursery. " Mem. ' 1760, Oct. 4. An American cluster nut, sent 

 me by Christopher Gray, the greatest nurseryman between Parson's Green 

 and Fulham : his garden on both sides the King's Road.'" (H. C. p. 15.) 



Corylus Colurna. " Mem. ' The Turkey nut, in the Mill Hill garden, is very 

 remarkable from all others, for the husk rises high, and branches out every 

 way, and covers the nut. This is a remarkable acquisition, for the captain 

 that brought them from Turkey, eating them in a drinking-room, one of 

 them dropped into the crack of a rotten window board, where it took root : 

 my gardening friend, Mr. Bennett, coming there and seeing it, transplanted 

 it to his garden, from whence our tree was a layer, and brought here anno 

 1756.'" (^. C. p. 15.) 



Gymnocladus canadensis. " Mem. ' Mr. Du Hamel sent me a Bonduc, from 



