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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART t. 



eight by Conrad Loddiges ; six by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy ; 

 three by Fraser ; nineteen by Lyon ; one by the Kew Garden ; 

 one by the London Horticultural Society; one by Don of the 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden i and one by Sir Abraham Hume. 

 Among the most interesting articles introduced during this de- 

 cade are, i?6sa muitiflcira, Cunninghams lanceolata, Juniperus 

 excelsa, CaprifoHum japonicum, i^osa Bknksice, i^hododendron 

 catawbiense (by Fraser), and Cratae^gus Aronia. It is some- 

 what remarkable, that of such a number of species introduced 

 during this decade, the names of so few of the introducers should 

 be known ; but it must be recollected that the means of intro- 

 ducing were, at this period, principally by packets of seeds sent 

 to the nurserymen by foreign correspondents, or by amateurs ; 

 and that, as several years must necessarily elapse between the 

 period of introduction, and that of flowering and naming, the 

 name of the collector who sent the seeds, or of the nurseryman 

 who first raised plants from them, is forgotten, or ceases to be of 

 the same interest. The case is different when living plants are 

 brought into the country, and it is, in truth, chiefly of the intro- 

 ducers of such that the names ai e known. 



From 1811 to 1820, three hundred and seventy-four trees 

 and shrubs were introduced, viz., forty-four by Messrs. Loddiges; 

 twelve by Lyon; four by Lee and Kennedy ; three by Whitley 

 and Co. (among which was /S'piree^a bella in 1820); three by the 

 Horticultural Society (including Cotoneaster affinis in 1820); 

 two by Fraser (^bies Fraserz, and Y/icca angustifolia in 1811); 

 one by Don of the Cambridge Botanic Garden ; one (the liibes 

 .sanguineum, in 1817) by Archibald Menzies, Esq., who sailed 

 round the world with Captain Vancouver ; Genista procumbens 

 by Schleicher, a botanical collector in Switzerland; one by 

 Knight of the Exotic Nursery, King's Road ; and one (Mahonm 

 fascicularis) by A. B. Lambert, Esq. Among the most valuable 

 of the species introduced by Loddiges arc, Azalea arborescens, 

 A. speci^sa, and Rlbes aureum, in 1812; Symphoria racemosa, 

 Cytisus ruthenicus, Jlmiperus recurva, and Yucca tenuiflcira, in 

 1817; ^'Inus cordifolia (the most beautiful species of the genus), 

 in 1818; y^rmeniaca brigantiaca, and Quercus stellata, in 1819; 

 Cratae^gus melanocarpa, C. latifolia, C. Oliviermwa, i^'raxinus 

 pannosa, F. platycarpa, F. lancea, Pinus excelsa, and ^^bies Pichta, 

 in 1820. Among those introduced by Lyon are, Magnolm pyra- 

 midata, in 1811; and Andromeda floribunda, ISlyssa candicans, 

 B6ry« Zigustrina, B. porulosa, B. acuminata, Virgilia lutea, and 

 Cratae^gus apiifolia, in 1812. Among the fine plants recorded 

 as having been introduced in this decade, without mentioning 

 the names of the introducers, are, v^J'sculus glabra and pallida, 

 and Pavm h5^brida, in 1812; Berberis sinensis, Cyd5nia ja- 

 ponica, and Z)^lphne Thymelae^ in 1815; Planera Richtirdz 



