360 PLATANACE.E. 



In the list of existing trees recorded in the " Arboretum 

 Britannicum," we find, as might indeed be expected from 

 what we have already stated in regard to the destruction 

 caused by the frosts of 1809 and 1813 — 14, none of any 

 great age or extraordinary dimensions, but several which 

 show a great rapidity of growth when planted in a suitable 

 soil ; amongst the finest are the two trees already alluded 

 to, the one growing in the palace gardens at Lambeth, 

 the other in the botanic garden at Chelsea. Another 

 beautiful specimen of the P. Occidentalism and of large 

 size, stands in the park at Cheply, Somersetshire ; it 

 measures twelve feet in circumference at three feet from 

 the ground, with a well-balanced wide spreading head. 

 At Twizell, about twenty years planted, it is four feet in 

 circumference at one foot six inches from the ground, and 

 about forty feet high, the situation a good alluvial soil 

 upon the brink of a rivulet. 



Both species of Platanus in this country seem equally 

 free from the attacks and ravages of insects, and, in con- 

 sequence, their foliage is never injured or defaced ; it 

 would also appear that, in their native habitats, the in- 

 sects that infest them must be few, as the foliao-e and 

 aspect of the two species are always described as luxuriant, 

 beautiful, and affording the deepest shade. 



