CHAP. III. 



CONTINENT OF EUROPE. 



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most part, been either procured direct from Hackney, or from German 

 nurserymen who have purchased their foreign trees and shrubs there. 



In the dukedom of Mecklenburg, Baron Laffert has a very rich collection 

 of trees and shrubs. Some magnolias grow here in the open air without 

 any kind of protection. 



In Anhalt there are few collections besides that ofWorlitz, already noticed 

 (p. 149.) J but the cemetery at Dessau, one of the finest in Germany, contains 

 a number of good foreign trees. 



In the free townships there is, at Frankfort, a considerable collection in the 

 public garden formed on the ramparts from the plan of M. Zeyer, and planted 

 by M. Rmz. (See Encyc. of Gard., edit. 1835, p. 195.) There are, also, col- 

 lections of trees, more or less extensive, in the public gardens belonging 

 to the other free towns. On the ramparts of Bremen there is an excellent 

 collection of poplars, of all the different species and varieties that will endure 

 the open air in that part of Germany, of the height of from 60 ft. to 80 ft. 

 This collection was made with great care by the late Pi'ofessor Mertens. 



The principal nurserymen in Germany ai'e, Messrs. Booth of Hamburgh, 

 who have an excellent collection of trees in their grounds at Floetbeck ; M. 

 Hayen, at Erfurt; M. Schelhaus, at Cassel; M, Seidel, at Dresden; M. 

 Rosenthal, and M. Held, at Vienna; M. Mathieu, at Berlin; and M. Rinz, 

 at Frankfort. 



_ In Germany, as in France, there are very few evergreen trees and shrubs, 

 either in the^ indigenous or introduced flora, as compared with the ligneous, 

 flora of Britain. The cedar of Lebanon requii'es protection all over Germany, 

 except in the warmest parts of Hungary and Baden; the common laurel, the 

 Portugal laurel, the arbutus, the rhododendron, the kalmia, the laurustinus, 

 the furze, and even the Irish ivy, can only endure the wmters in Germany in 

 very favourable situations. 



Sect. IV. Of the Indigenous and Foreign Trees and Shrubs of 

 Scatidifiavia, including Denmark, Holstein, Stveden, Lapland, Fin-^ 

 land, Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. 



Feom the northern latitude and severe climate of these countries, it will not 

 be expected that their ligneous flora, either indigenous or introduced, can at 

 all equal that of Britain. The total number of ligneous species enumerated 

 by Retzius, in his Flora Scandinavia, edit. 1795, amounts to 133 species, and 

 cw that number there appear to be a few^ enumerated below, which are not 

 natives of Britain. The most important of these are the ^^cer f»latanoides, 

 or Norway maple, and the common spruce fir. 



^osdcece. Rosa Eglantma, dnnamomea, ■&m\^\% Retzius } PotentiUa fru- 

 ticdsai iS'pirBB^a salicifolia, 



Pomacece. C'ratae^gus mondgyna Jacq. 



Leguminosce^ Genista germanica, Coronllla E'merus, 



SaMnece. Salix hermaphrodita, hastata, myrtilloides, depressa, lapponum. 



Kcennece, ^^cer platanoides. 



Cistine^, Heliinthemum oelandicum, Fumana, ' 



Tamamcine(s. TSmarix germanica. 



'Eii'icdceee, ^ Phyllodoce ^axifolia (Menziesw caerulea); Andromeda tetra- 

 6na, Aypnoides, calyculata; i2hododendron lapp6nicum; iedum groenlan? 

 icura, not found in the limits of Sweden. 



Caprpblidcecs, _ Lonieem Xylosteum, caerulea ; Linn£e'« borealis. 



Coniferce^ ShiQS excelsa ; Jiiniperiis communis minor, communis arbo- 

 r6scens. 



On looking at the Flora Danica, Flora Suecia, and Flora Lapponica, we 

 find the number of ligneous species gradually diminish as we advance north? 

 wards, till, m the Faroe Islands, a flora of which has been given by W. C, 



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