Deomm 13, 1019. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. _ i SUP. us 
TREES AND SHRUBS. these trees and Fortune was told by ic: monks tiles the “forests of the Larch-fir ' 
that cones were only see hook in alternate years. анаа south of koyang Lake in Kiangsi i 
AEAGNUS p dug up a few plants which finally reached which were mentioned by Barrow in his qu 
EIAEAGNUS MU іл Dh of n al England, and it is p. obable that the largest trees in China, published in 1804, and which, 
8 cultivated quee ac. x 
p Ж ойне a 15: Uus The species "OW growing in Europe and the U nited States Wilson has pointed out, must have been Рай 
расе tJ on D | 8} were of this sending. arix, were wild trees. 
is a native of Japan, China апе prol a ably Corea After Fortune’s visit to the qur, Moun- In spite of all of Fortune's efforts t introduce 
and the date of its intr dao. ‘tion eel NA а= 1862. - tains in 1855, Pseudolarix was not seen again in this tree into Europe it has Bet taming common 
The illustration 1m Fig. 142 shows branches, much China ш 1878 when Charles м, a The largest specimen in Europe is in the Rovelli 
reduced, bearing large Siena s the deep- botanical traveller for Messrs. Jas. Veitch and nursery at Pallanza on Lake Maggiore in Italy. 
orange coloured fruits which are about f-an- Sons, of peer found it at "die Temple of Teen In 1907 this tree was sixty-four feet high with a 
inch long. . The plant is NEEV ODER tal in late Cha on the Lushan Range in Kiangsi and sent trunk six feet ten inches in girth. It has pro- 
summer when covered with its attractive berries ; 
it i to be extensively cultivate арат 
is а ber yl ring piam he s forms a 
deciduous vergre 8 ind large 
"specimens aitain 1 a “height T rhe a feet. The 
: p i d eoe having a silvery 
un is densely covered with tin 
j ad Tatermingled with larger ones of a reddish 
brown tin e flowers appear in April and 
nd they are fragrant The species 15 
illustrated in Mag., tab. 7341, and in the 
accompanying text by Sir Joseph Hooker it is 
stated ray’s name of is an 
unfortunate one ‘‘ because the pedicels are long 
only in one form of the plant, on which account, 
and in deference to the priority E Thunberg's 
name, I have reverted to me of multi- 
ora." 
He states that the beautiful fruits 
E^ ор very d Rt E. by 
birds. According to Bean in Trees an 1 Shrubs 
- Hardy in the British TE "n is a íi with 
shorter stalk, smaller fruits ob more lanceolate 
leaves, called E. longipes var. crispa. 
SEUDOLA TUNEI. 
The following interesting article under the 
title of * Pseudolarix amabilis in the Mies. 
States," from the Bulletin of Popular In 
formation (Arnold Arboretum, New Se fol, 
refers the conifer more generally n 
in this country as Pseudolar x Fortunei, May 
which is the oldest s available name 
Г Р able 
gp given in association with the true genus. The 
tree has, as synonyms, Р. Кае тарїе ri, Gordon; 
Rehder 
or the northern United States and for 
general cultivation the most valuable e the 
monotypic Asiatic Conifers certainl he 
Chinese Golden Larch, eudolarix Soati 8 
ith the deciduous leaves o „arch and 
arge. cones erect on th ne with scales 
Which fall when mature from the : of ше con 
like those of Fir-trees and the Ce roti 
Ав a wild tree not much is y nown of the ‹ i 
jens growing in pota and much stunted ; and 
it was not until 1854 in a journey in the тшне 
Chekiang that Fortune = und Pseudolarix 
growing in the open ground at the. monastery of 
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umn, in th > securing another su ly 
eeds, in the he pata higher range in ih. he seeds to England. The last botanist to see the duced seeds at different times for several ye 
western part of Chekiang on which he had heard Ps шош in China, E. Н. Wilson, met with it апа ем > germinate freely where у fall under 
ihe Pseudolarix was more abundant. Here in August, 1907, at an altitude of about 4,000 the ti There are a few of the original tr 
е found at altitudes just ‘below 4, feet a feet on the Lushan Range near Kuling, which is in Fiane ce, Germany and Анд - ye 
larger number of both "large and small trees, th e most wes tern station wher e this tr ree has inen шону being the tree аб is i nursery 
h he thought had also been planted. The seen in China y Коса е larger tree of the Horticultural Society at Calm mpthout, near 
tree which Fortune saw at is high near Kuling had been planted, but Wilson saw Antwerp, which in 1910 was said i io be f forty-six 
itude he estimated to be one hundred and small trees on the mountain side which were feet tall with a trunk three fe er gen Th iere 
thirty feet high; the trunk was eight feet in cir. evidently wild, and it is probable, therefore, Das ae several of these original in 
etenee; ‘and. the lower branches nearly these small trees are the only self-sown trees Great Britain, but they are hae Hh ay oti the 
ed the ground. There were no cones on Pseudolarix seen by European ‘botanical travellers, large specimen on the Continent, for apparently 
