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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



V ■ 3. C. (/>.) oiukvta x lis Lam. 



p. 700. 

 darn., 



HentjflcmHom. Lam. Encye., 1 



Si/rn'iiyiric. C duincnsis See*. Cam., t 

 F nmrmwi*m x Scop. Cam., t. 60. ; Dend. Brit., t. 



Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 463. 

 60. 



. j and our 



The Oriental Hornbeam. 



N. Du Ham., 2. p. 199. 



Spec. Char., tf-e. Bracteas of the fruit ovate, 

 unequal at the base, undivided, somewhat 

 angular, unequally serrated. ( Willd.) A 

 low tree or shrub, growing to the height 

 of 12 ft. j a native of Asia Minor and the 

 Levant. Introduced in 1739. The Eastern 

 hornbeam is a dwarf tree, rarely rising 

 above 10 ft. or 12 ft. in height. As it 

 shoots out into numerous widely spreading, 

 horizontal, irregular branches, it cannot be 

 readily trained up with a straight clear 

 trunk. The leaves are much smaller than 

 those of the common hornbeam, and the 

 branches grow closer together ; so that it is 

 even still better adapted for forming a 

 clipped hedge than that species. It was 

 introduced by Miller, in 1739; but, though 

 it is very hardy, and easily propagated by 

 layers, it has never been much cultivated 

 in our nurseries. There arc plants at 

 Messrs. Loddiges's. 



Statistics. In Yorkshire, at Grimston, 14 years planted, it is 25 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna 

 in Rosenthal's Nursery, 16 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the English 

 garden, 14 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 24 years old, it is 26 ft. high, diameter 

 of the trunk 9 in, and of the head 20 ft. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 2s. 6<i. each. 



App. i. Species or Varieties of C&rpinus not yet introduced into 

 European Gardens. 



C'irpinus (B.) Carpinizza Hort. Fl. Aust., 2., p. 626. Leaves crenately serrated ; scales of the 

 strobiles revolute, 3-cleft ; the middle segment the longest, and quite entire. A native of the woods 

 of Transylvania. TheTransylvanians distinguished this sort from C. 2?etulus, and call it Carpinizza 



C. vimlnca Lindl.,Wall. PL As. Bar., t. 106., , „ Q 



Royle Illust, p. 341., and our ./?#. 1938., has l J 3® 



the leaves ovate-lanceolate, much acuminated, 

 doubly serrated ; petioles and branchlets gla- 

 brous ; bracteas fruit-bearing, ovate-oblong, 

 laciniateat the base, somewhat entire at the 

 apex, bluntish. {Lirutl. MSS.) A native of 

 the mountains of Nepal, in Sirmore and 

 Kamaon ; and, according to Boyle, on Mus- 

 souree, at the height of 6500 ft. above the level 

 of the sea; flowering and fruiting from Janu- 

 ar> to April. "This fine tree is very like the 

 common alder. Its wood is considered dur- 

 able, arid is used for ordinary building purpose! 

 by the natives of Nepal The slender pendu- 

 lous brandies are frequently attacked by a sort 

 o! coccus, irnidi produces numerous elevated 

 tubercles, or warts. The structure of the nut 

 resembles that otC. ffetulus, as described and 



figured by Gsertner, excej t in toe following 



• _L'j he cavity is filled with what ap- 

 pear* U> me an entire and homogeneous, fleshy, 



■Iseost eoteurless substance, exceedingly like a 



rni : in which are suspended, towards 



the a].< !, two minute embryoneH. 



that, notwithstanding the me I 



« .trefnl and repeated examination, I may have 



ten the cotyledons of the ripe seed for a perlsperm j but I have invariably seen two minute 

 embryones lodged within the upper end of the fleshy substance which (ills the nut." {Wall. I't. .is. 



l:nr , I 1(M 1 r'.m the elevation at which this tree grows, it will probably be found hardy in 



( fnjrfwm LtndL, Wall. I'l. As. Bar, 2. p. 5., has the leavers ovate-oblong, acute, sharply serrated, 

 and glabrou- •. petiole Mid branehlets downy; bracteas fruit-bearing, somewhat rhomboid, with 

 eth, acute, reticulated It is nearly allied to C. orienteHf, but differs in the form and margin 

 of the leaf, and in the bracteas. ( Wall. I'l. Ax. liar., 1. p. 5.) 



