14, 
THE WESTERN PLANE. 
Platanus occidentalis. 
Prats 3, Fig. 2. 
LG EAUTY and luxuriance of leaf and 
D\\\¢ adaptability for town culture are 
the distinguishing characteristics 
of the Western Plane, a Tree 
which, though it first came to us 
from America, so late as the year 
1636, has adapted itself so thoroughly to 
; the conditions of our climate—showing 
+ almost a preference for the smoky atmos- 
phere of our crowded cities—that it has become 
one of the most familiar of our Trees. It grows 
with great rapidity, and with a vigorous up- 
rightness—grows indeed so rapidly, that, under 
