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watered with wine; and it is found by experience 
that the same is very comfortable to the roots,” we 
have some notable specimens, as at Highclere, and 
at Weston Park, in Shropshire, where there is a 
tree eighty feet high, spreading 100 feet, and having 
a girth of eighteen and a half feet at five feet from 
the ground. 
The true Oriental Plane has a rounded outline, 
a leaf with a wedge-shaped base, and deeply five-lobed, 
and generally two or more “ buttons” in the fructifi- 
cation. The Spanish variety has very slightly divided 
leaves, and most of our London Plane-trees belong 
to an intermediate forin (P. orientalis acerifo'lia) 
somewhat resembling the Sycamore in its leaf-outline. 
Of this form there are many fine specimens in and 
around the metropolis, as in Berkeley, Bedford, and 
Mecklenburg Squares, and the well-known irees in 
Wood Street, Cheapside, and in Stationers’ Hall 
Court. The latter was planted by Mr. Broome, treas- 
urer of the Company, about seventy-five years ago, 
There are also fine specimens, over 100 years old, at 
Stanwell Place, Staines, and at Shadwell Court, 
Norfolk ; and down to 1881 a magniticent tree of 
equal age was standing in the garden of Lambeth 
Palace, where a fine representative still lingers. 
The Western Plane is far less common with us. 
It has a looser outline, differing, it has been said, 
from the Oriental kind in this particular, as a Pear- 
tree does from an Apple; its leaves are divided to a 
moderate depth, and are scarcely at all wedge- 
shaped or tapering at the junction of the blade 
with the stalk; and the fruiting branch commonly 
