Arhoricultural Notices. 641 



greatly mistaken, this tree remained there against a south wall." (HC 

 p. 48.) 



j^alix babylonica. " Metn. ' Mr. Vernon, Turkey merchant at Aleppo, trans- 

 planted the weeping willow from the river Euphrates, and brought it with 

 him to England, and planted it at his seat at Twickenham Park, where I 

 saw it growing, anno 1748. This is the original of all the willows in our 

 gardens. In July, 1765, I measured a weeping willow at Mr. Snelling's, at 

 Godalmin, Surrey, of but fifteen years' standing ; it measured 6 ft. in girth, 

 or 2 ft. in diameter, and the height in proportion.' In the first edition of 

 the Hortiis Kewensis, on the authority of L'Heritier's Sertiim Anglicanum, 

 this species is said to have been first introduced in 1730, but the date in 

 the second edition has been altered to 1692, from a reliance on Plukenet's, 

 t. 173. f. 5. which, on examination of the original specimen at the British 

 Museum, 1 found to be an entirely different plant. I3y the Catalogus Flan- 

 tarum, published by a Society of Gardeners, in 1730, it appears then to have 

 been cultivated in our nurseries." (H. C. p. 48.) 



iS'partiumyunceum fl. pi. " Mem. ' I first introduced the Spanish broom with 

 double flowers; it was sent me from Nuremberg, anno 1746, in a pot nicely 

 wickered all over; it cost there a golden ducat; came from thence down 

 the Elbe to Hambro', and was brought by first ship to London, in good 

 order. I soon inarched it on the single-flowered broom, and gave it to 

 Gray and Gordon, two famous nurserymen, and the public soon had it from 

 them.' " {H. C. p. 52.) 



Syringa vulgaris alba. " Mem. • Lord Petre was particularly fond of the 

 white lilac, and directed his gardener to gather none but white seed ; he 

 raised more than 5000 plants that flowered in 1741, and out of that number 

 but about twenty came white, the rest all blue, so that white seems to be 

 only a seminal variety from the blue.' " (^H, C. p. 54.) 



Fiscum album, the mistletoe, has been found by Mr. Knowlton growing on 

 the following trees. " 1. On the lime tree at Bone Gate, East Barnett 

 and Cannons, Duke of Chandos, Edgeware. 2. On nuts and filberts at 

 Market Street. 3. On the mountain ash or quick beam. 4. On apple 

 trees. 5. On the crabs. 6. On white thorn. 7. On the acacia or ro- 

 binia. 8. On the pear tree. 9. On the maple, in Yorkshire and Hunting- 

 donshire. 10. On AW& Theophrasti, or white beam, on Sussex Downs. 

 11. On the abele or poplar, at Ashton, near Rotherham, and at Lord 

 Holdernesse's. 12. On the ash at Lord Tilney's, at Tilney Park, in 

 Hampshire. 13. On the elm ; 14. On the willow ; 15. On the buck- 

 thorn ; 16. On the sallow : 17. On the service ; these all were observed 

 at Esquire Blackburn's, and in Lancashire, and in Westmorland, in 1764. 



18. On a holly branch, which was at a druggist's in Bow Lane, Cheapside. 



19. On a Virginia walnut tree, growing in our fields at Mill Hill. 20. On 

 the oak (which is very rare), Mr. Knowlton has twice seen it. In August, 



1765, three plants were found gi'owing on the oak on the estate of 



White, Esq., at Watling Wells." {H. C. p. 57.) 



The following are dimensions of trees in the grounds of Flitwick House, 

 the seat of John Thomas Brook, Esq., near Ampthill, Bedfordshire. The 

 circumference is taken at 1 ft. from the ground. 

 Quercus pedunculata, 17 ft. girth, and 70 ft. high; 14 ft., and 60 ft. high ; 



14^ ft., and 65 ft. high ; and 18 ft. and 70 ft. high, 

 i^raxinus excelsior, 10ft. Sin. girth, and 60ft. high. 

 Tilia europse^a, 7 ft. 8 in. girth, and Q>b ft. high. 

 C/'lmus campestris, 18 ft. girth, and 60 ft. high, 

 i^agus sylvatica, 11 ft. 6 in. girth, and 65 ft. high. 

 J^cer Pseudo-A'latanns, 7 ft. 6 in. girth, and 58 ft. high. 

 Carpinus ^etulus, 7 ft. girth, and 50 ft. high. 

 jLarix europae^a, 7 ft. 6 in. girth, and 80 ft. high. 

 Cedrus Libani, planted in 1818, 4 ft. 3 in. girth, and 30 ft. high. 



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