ISO HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 



The modern collections of trees in Germany are too numerous to be men- 

 tioned in this work, and we can only, therefore, give the names of those which 

 we have been informed are the most complete. 



In Austria there is an excellent collection in the University Botanic Garden 

 of Vienna, under the care of Baron Jacquin, chiefly planted within the last 

 twenty years, but a part much older. Here the macluras, male and female, 

 stand in the open air, but require protection during winter. The salisburia 

 here, and those in several other places near Vienna, flower annually; but they 

 are all male plants. On that in the Botanic Garden, Baron Jacquin has had 

 the female grafted with scions from Geneva, but they have not yet flowered. 

 Laxenburg is more remarkable for native trees than for foreign ones ; but there 

 are some very large tuHp trees, which ripen thek seeds every year, and some 

 very large purple beeches and weeping willows. There is there an Araiicdria 

 excelsa, protected during winter by a wooden house, which has attained the 

 height of 30 ft. in six or seven years. Baron Jacquin assures us that this is 

 one of the finest and most picturesque specimens of this tree that can be 

 imagined. In the park there are many fine oaks of the growth of several 

 centuries ; and a vei-y comprehensive general collection of trees and shrubs, 

 of from ten to forty years' growth. AH these have been planted by, and are 

 now under the care of, M. Stephen Ranch, through the exertions of whose 

 son, M. Charles Rauch, now head gardener at Rennweg, we have received 

 much of tlie information contained in this section; while another son, M. 

 Francis Rauch, now (1835) in London, has drawn from nature the greater 

 part of the botanical specimens by which this work is illustrated. In Austria 

 Proper there are collections at Bruck on the Leytha, on the borders of Hun- 

 gary: atDornbach, Prince Schwartzenberg; at Hadersdorf, Baron Loudon (a 

 view of whose mansion we have given in the Encyclopcsdia of Gardening, 

 edit. 1835, p. 136. fig. 87.); and at the nurseries of Rosenthal, and Held in 

 Vienna. On Kopenzel ]3erg, a hill in the neighbourhood of Vienna, from 

 which there is one of the finest views in Europe, there is a tulip tree 

 60 years planted, which has an immense globular spreading head, though only 

 45 ft. high. At Bruck, the trees have been chiefly planted v/ithin the last eight 

 or ten years ; but there are some older specimens well deserving notice ; such 

 as J'cer striatum, 18 ft. high in 20 years; Pahurus australisj 18ft. high in 

 30 years; and i^raxinus atrovirens, 18ft. high in 20 years. At Dornbach 

 there is a good collection ; but very few trees "that have been above 40 years 

 planted. At Hadersdorf we observed, in 1814, some fine cypress trees 

 planted round the tomb of the great Marshal Loudon, but in the Return 

 Paper received they arc not mentioned; there is, however, a good collection, 

 the most rapidly growing tree of which appears to be that beautiful species of 

 elm, i/'lmus efFusa, which, in 20 years,- has attained the height of 36 ft. in 

 poor sandy soil. The Vienna nurseries, especially that of Rosenthal, contain 

 good collections planted within the last 20 years. 



There are collections at Eisenstadt, and other residences, in Hungary, and 

 in the botanic garden at Pesth. In Bohemia there are collections at Toeplitz, 

 Schonhoff, and other places. 



The following enumeration of the evergreen trees and shrubs, foreign and 

 indigenous, which stand the winter at Vienna without protection has been 

 furnished to us by Mr. Francis Rauch : — 



Hyj^ericmecB. ifypericum calycinura. 



\lmnecB. 7Mex ylquifolium. 



LeguminbscB. <S'partiura junceum, C'ytisus scoparius. 



Povuicecs. Cratse^gus Pyracantha var. fructu luteo. 



AralidcecE. P/edera i7elix and varieties. 



CaprifolidcecB. Caprifolium sempervirens. 



'EjiicdcecB. Calluna vulgaris. 



THiymelce^ cE . Z)aphne Laureola. 



'Eiiqihorbxkcedd. ^uxus sempervirens and varieties. 



ComJercE. Pinus Banksran«, Cembra, znops, pumilio, 5'tr6bus, rigida, 



