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AKUOHETUM AND l'UUTICKTUM. 



PART HI, 



tria, at Vienna, in the garden at Schonbrunn, and also in that of M. Pcrnold, there are several 

 male salisburi.is, from 40 ft. to 50 ft. high, which flower every year. The oldest of these was the tree 

 originally planted in the garden at Schonbrunn by Francis I. (See p. 2096.) In the Botanic Garden 

 at Carlsruhe, there is a tree (50 ft. high, which has not yet flowered. In Brunswick, at Harbke, there 

 is a tree, 70 years planted, and only '20 ft. high. In Switzerland, the female tree at Bourdigny (see 

 p J 96.) was kindly measured for us in April, 1835, by M. Alphonse De Candolle ; and, according to 

 his communication in the Gardener's Magazine, vol. xi., it was then from 12 ft. to 15 ft. high, with a 

 trunk exactly 4 ft. in circumference at 18 in. from the ground; and the diameter of the spacejeovered by 

 the branches was 25 ft. — In Italy, \ n Lombardy, at Mouza, 24 years planted, the male is 26 ft. high, 

 the eireu inference of the trunk 2 ft, and the diameter of the head 18 ft. ; there is also a female, 10 

 years old, which is only 3 ft. high. A female tree, in another garden near Milan, has flowered. In 

 the Botanic Garden at Pavia, a tree, measured by the Abbe Berleze, in 1832, was 60 ft. high. This 

 must be the finest tree in Italy, as that of Montpelier is the finest in France ; that of Carlsruhe the 

 finest in Germany ; that of Leyden the finest in Holland ; and that of the Mile End Nursery the 

 finest in England. — In North America, at Woodlands, near Philadelphia, there is a tree 54 ft. high, 

 with a trunk 3 ft. 10 in. in circumference at 2 ft. from the ground ; there are also two other trees in 

 the same garden, but not one of them has ever flowered. These trees were brought to America, by 

 Mr. Hamilton, in 1784. (See Gard. Mag., xii. p. 378.) 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are from Is. 6d. to 

 5s. each, according to the size; female plants, 5*. each, At Boll wy Her, plants 

 are 5 francs each ,• and at New York, 2 dollars. 



App. I. Half-hardy Genera belonging to the Order Taxdcece. 



Fodocdrpus L'Herit. is nearly allied to Taxus, and so much resembles that genus, both in its 

 leaves and fruit, that it has not been long separated from it. The species are tall trees, natives of 

 China, Japan, the East Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, South America, and New Holland. About 

 a dozen species have been introduced into England, which are almost always kept in the green- 

 house or stove ; but some have been found to stand the open air in the climate of London, with very 

 slight protection. 



P. macrophyllus Swt, Lamb, 2d ed. 2., p. 843. ; T. macrophylla Thun. Jap., 276., Smith in Rees's 

 Cycl., No. 6.; the long-leaved Japan yew; has the leaves scattered, pointless, spreading every way, and 

 the fruit stalked. Common in Japan, where it is a large and stouttree,the woodof which is valued for 

 cabinet-work, not being liable to the attacks of insects. It is a native of Japan, and was introduced 

 into the Kew Gardens in 1804. There are plants at Messrs. Loddiges's, and in various collections, 

 which are usually kept in green-houses or cold-pits ; but there is a plant in the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Garden, which was planted in 1S32 in an angle where two'walls meet, and is now (1837) 

 between 2 ft. and 3 ft. high. 



P. latifblius Wall. i or, - 



Plant. Asiat. Rar., 1. p. io ^ J 



2& t. 30., and our Jig. 

 1995., has the leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, much 

 pointed, and opposite. 

 Male catkins fascicled, 

 axillary, on a common 

 peduncle. Nut globose; 

 receptacle narrow, co- 

 vered with scattered 

 bracteas. An evergreen 

 tree of the middle size. 

 Leaves about 5 in. long, 

 and 1 in. broad ; pale 

 beneath. (Wail.) A 

 native of the mountains 

 of Pundna, flowering in 

 March, and ripening its 

 fruit towards the end of 

 t be J ear. It is cal!ed.SY;p- 

 loug by the natives. Dr. 

 Wallich observes, this 

 species "is very dis- 

 tinct from P. macro- 

 phyllus in size, figure, 

 and insertion of its 



, and in its fascicled aments. Both species are found on the same lofty range of mountains, 

 bordering on the eastern parts of Bengal, not far from the district of Silhet." (See Tentamen Flora: 

 ><l,(ihnsisiUuslrata:, l.p. r,(i.) 



ui Sprengei \ P. excelsus Lodd. Cat.,ed. 1836 ; T. spinulbsa Smith in Itecs's Cycl., No. 7. ; 

 partly opposite, or whorled, and lanceolate; spinous-pointed, and spreading every 

 way. It is a native of Port Jackson, and there is a plant in the Botanic Garden at Kew, against 

 •'.■til, which has stood there without protection since 1830, and is now 3 ft. high. 



/' ,,„,,/, r Penoon ; T. rmclfera Kcempf. Amusn. Ex.. p. 815., icon., Smith in Rees's Cycl., No. 5., 

 / rU II ffep., t. H.; has the leaves 2-ranked, distant, lanceolate, pointed, and but half the length 



I toe fruit ; and the foliage and habit of the plant strongly resemble those of a deciduous cypress. 



iccording to Kempfer, In the northern provinces of Japan, where it forms a lofty tree, 



with ''i-'tny opposite -xaly branches, found also on mountains in Nepal and Kainaon. The wood is 



I oil i made from the kernel ol the nut, which is said to be used for culinary purposes, though 



tringent to be eaten. This species was introduced in 1420, and is, perhaps, 



rdtett ol thr- genu*; .i plant bavins stood out in open ground in the Goldworth Arbore- 



-.<:<• 1831, which is now 4ft. high. Ft is also at Messrs. Loddiges's. In 1881 there was a tree 



of th M specie* at White Knightt, which was V, ft. high. 



