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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111, 



1108 



shrub, with long slender shoots, and prone to throw 

 up innumerable suckers; a native of the south of 

 Europe, where it grows to the height of from 10 ft. 

 to 12 ft. j flowering from May till August. It was 

 introduced in 1730, and is common in British gardens ; 

 where it s valuable for covering naked walls, as it 

 grows with extreme rapidity, and flowers and fruits 

 freely, in almost any soil or situation. Established 

 plants, in good soil, will make shoots 10 ft. or 12 ft. 

 in length in one season ; and the plant, when trained 

 against a house or high wall, will reach the height of 

 30 ,t. or 40 ft., as may be seen in some courts in 

 Paris. Trained to a strong iron rod, to the height 

 of 20 ft. or 30 ft., and then allowed to spread over an 

 umbrella head, it would make a splendid bower. Its 

 shoots would hang down to the ground, and form a 

 complete screen on every side, ornamented from top 

 to bottom with ripe fruit, which is large, and bright 

 scarlet or yellow ; with unripe fruit, which is of a 

 lurid purple; or with blossoms, which are purple 

 and white. Some idea of the quantity of ripe and 

 unripe fruit, and of blossoms, which may be found on 

 a shoot at one time, may be formed from Jig. 1108., 

 which is only a portion of a shoot, the upper part of 

 which (not exhibited in the figure) contained two or 

 three dozen of fruit, all ripe at once. If it were re- 

 quired to open the sides of a bower covered with 

 this plant, the shoots could be tied together so as 

 to form columns, at regular distances all round : but 

 they must be untied in an hour or two afterwards, 

 to prevent the shoots in the interior of the column 

 from being heated so as to cause them to drop their 

 leaves and fruit. Price of plants, in the London nur- 

 series, from 6d. to Is. each ; at Bollwyller, 30 cents ; 

 and at New York, 37^ cents. 



Varieties. There is a variety with yellow fruit, and 

 another with the fruit roundish ; and, in our opinion, 

 L, barbarum, chinense, ruthenicum, Shawi, and Tre- 

 widnam, all which we have seen in Loddiges's arbo- 

 retum ; and, probably, other sorts which we have not 

 seen, are nothing more than variations of the same 

 form. 



1 2. L. (e.) ba'rbarum L. The 

 Barbary Box Thorn. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 277. ; Willd. Sp., 4. 

 p. 1059., exclusive oi'thesynonymes of Shaw 

 and Lam. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 458. ; Lodd. 

 Cat, ed. 1836. 



Synonvmet. I., Aalimifolium Mill. Diet., No. 

 6. ; L. barbarum a. vulgare Ait. Hart. Kew., 

 1. p. 257. Sclikuhr Hand/,., 1. p. 147. t 4(1, 

 Ifai/nc Term. Bot., t. 10. f. 5., Du Ham. 

 Art,., 1. p. 306. t. 121. f. 4., Mich. Gen., t 

 105. f. l.j the Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree. 



Engravings*. Wats. Dend. Brit, t 9. ; and 

 our Jig. 1109. 



Spec. CAar.ftyc. Branches depend- \\q<) 

 ent. Buds spiny. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, flat, glabrous, acute. 

 1 lowers twin, extra-axillary, pe- 

 dicellate. Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens exserted, 

 About equal in length to the limb. Branches angular. 



