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HISTORY 



AND GEOGRAPHY OF 



TREES. 



PART I. 



There were introduced 





There were introduced 





from the year 



to the year 





from the year 



to the year 



Species. 



1548 



1550 



17 



1691 



1700 



ii% 



1551 



1560 



1 



1700 



1710 



1 o 



1561 



1570 



18 



1711 



1720 



la 



1571 



1580 



3 



1721 



1730 



A A 



4?'* 



1581 



1590 



2 



1731 



1740 



oy 



1591 



1600 



48 



1741 



1750 



O 1 



loOl 



1610 



1 



1751 



1760 



77 

 / / 



loll 



1620 



1 



1761 



1770 



XjQ 

 OO 



1 fid 1 



lodO 



22" 



1771 



1780 



Ob 



1631 



1640 



27 



1781 



1790 



/I ft 



1641 



1650 



4 



1791 



1800 



/I K 



1651 



1660 , 



37 



1801 



1810 



QQ 



uo 



1661 



1670 



7 



1811 



1820 



•364 



1671 



1680 



1 



1821 



1830 



242 



1681 



1690 



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The numbers, taken by centuries, are, in the 16th century, 89 ; 

 in the 17th, 131 ; in the 18th, 445; and, in the first [three de- 

 cades of the 19th, 699! The total number of foreign trees 

 and shrubs introduced up to the year 1830, appears to he about 

 1300; or, probably, up to the present moment, including all 

 those species which have not yet flowered, and, consequently, 

 have not yet been recorded in books, about 1400. 



The countries from which these 1 300 species have been intro- 

 duced appear, from the Hortus BritannicuSj to be as under : — 



Europe r Greece, Turkey in Europe, and the Levant, 36; 

 Italy, 35; Sicily and other Mediterranean islands, 19; Spain, 

 69;. Portugal, 12 ; Switzerland, 49 ; France, 34; Germany, 52; 

 Hungary, 46; Russia, 41 ; Sweden, 4 ; Lapland, 4 ; Spitzber- 

 gen, 1; North of Europe, 2; Central Europe, 18; South of 

 Europe, 111: in all, 543. Asia: Siberia, 69; Asia Minor, 3; 

 East Indies, 4 ; Nepal, 54; China, 34; Japan, 11; Persia, 5; 

 Asia, 3: in all, 183. Africa and the Canary Isles: Barbary 

 States, 13 ; Egypt, 3 ; Cape of Good Hope, 4 ; Canary Isles, 3 : 

 in all, 23. America: North America, 528; Mexico, 4; South 

 America, 22 ; Straits of Magellan, 6 : in all, 560. Australia 

 and Polynesia : New Holland, 1 ; Van Diemen's Land, 2 ; New 

 Zealand, 1 : in all, 4. 



It would thus appear, that nearly half the foreign trees and 

 shrubs in the country have been introduced during the pre- 

 sent century ; and that these have been brought chiefly from 

 North America. Among them there are not more than 300 

 trees which attain a timber-like size, and of these by far the most 

 valuable is the larch. Some of the European acers, the sweet 

 chestnut, some oaks, some poplars, pines, and firs, and the pla- 

 tanus and cedar from Asia, are also valuable as timber trees ; 

 but the chief accessions to this class are the acers, oaks, elms, 

 ashes, poplars, birches, pines, and firs of North America. Our 

 principal fruit trees are from Asia, including the common walnut, 

 which is both a fruit and a timber tree ; but by far the finest 



