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ARBORETUM AND FRU'J'I CETUM. 



PART HI. 



Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 100 years planted, 'and 38 ft. high, tlie trunk 2 ft. 9 in. in diameter, and 

 the head 37 ft. in diameter, growing in stony clay; in Essex, at Bravstock, 80 vears planted, and 

 50ft. high ; in Surrey, at Farnham Castle, ."50 years planted, 30ft. "high; in Suffolk, at Finbo- 

 borough Hall, 70 years planted, and 40 ft. high. In Denbighshire, at Llaiibede, 20 years planted, 

 3i ft. high. In Scotland, near Edinburgh, at Hopcton House, '16 ft. high ; in Argyllshire, at Hafton, 

 36 years planted, and 35 ft. high ; in Clackmannanshire, in the garden of the Dollar Institution, 12 years 

 planted, and 20 ft, high ; in Forfarshire, at Airlie Castle, 10 years planted, and 14 ft. high ; in Stirling- 

 shire, at Blairlogie, 302 years old, and 33 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4 ft., and of the head 

 45ft., the soil, a light loam on dry gravel, and the situation exposed. In France, in the Botanic 

 Garden at Toulon, 48 years planted, and 4.5 ft. high. In .Saxonv, at Wiirlitz, 65 years planted, and 

 40 ft. high; in Austria, in fcthe University Botanic Garden at Vienna, 20 years planted, and 25 ft. 

 high; at Laxenburg, 60 years planted, and 45ft. high; at Kopenzel, 45 years planted, and 30ft. 

 high ; at Hadersriorf, 40 years planted, and 21 ft. high. In Prussia, at Sans Souci, 40 yearsplanted, 

 and 35 ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, 24 years planted, and 20 ft. high. 



Comviercial Statistics. Plants, in London, seedlings 10*. a 1000, of a larger 

 size 205. a 1000; the variegated-leaved variety 2s. Qd. a plant. At Bollwyller, 

 the broad-leaved variegated subvariety, 1 franc 50 cents a plant: at New 

 York, ?. 



i 19. A. crr''ticum L. The Cretan Maple. 



Identification. Lin. Spec, 1497. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 594. ; Don's Mill, 1. p. 649. 

 Synony?nes. A. heterophyllum Willd. En. ; A. sempervirens L. Mailt. ; E'rable de Crete, Fr. j Cre- 

 tischer Ahorn, Ger. 



Engravings. Tratt. Arch., 1. No. 19. ; Duh. Arb., 1. p. 28. t. 10. f.9. ; Alp. Exot., 9. t. 8. j Pocock 

 Orient., 197. t. 85. ; Schmidt Arb., 1. 15. ; Krause, t. 120. ; our^g-. 132. in p. 459. ; and the plateof 

 this species in our Second Volume. 



Spec. Char., <.fc. Leaves permanent, cuneated at the base, acutely 8-lobed at 

 the top. Lobes entire, or toothleted ; lateral ones shortest. Corymbs few- 

 flowered, erect. Fruit smooth, with the wings hardly diverging. (Do/i's 

 Mill., i. p. 649.) A diminutive slow-growing sub-evergreen tree ; native of 

 Candia, and of other islands in the Grecian Archipelago. Introduced in 

 1752, 



Bescription, i^c. This species is seldom seen in British collectionSj and 

 then more frequently as a shrub than as a tree; but it is readily known 

 from all the others, and from A. monspessulanum, to which it makes the near- 

 est approach, by its being nearly evergreen ; and by the great variety of the 

 forms of its leaves; and, according to the specific character, by the flowers 

 being erect; those of J. monspessulanum being pendulous. In young plants, 

 the leaves are seldom much lobed ; and this, we suppose, has given rise to the 

 species or variety known in gardens as A. heterophyllum, which appears to be 

 only A. crcticum in a young state. We are only aware of three plants of this 

 species which have assumed the character of trees in the neighbourhood of 

 London ; viz. that at Syon, figured in our Second Volume, which is 28 ft. high, 

 flowers freely, and produces seeds almost every year; one in the Chelsea 

 Botanic Garden, about 8 ft. high, which has stood there since the time of Mil- 

 ler ; and a third, of equal age, which was in the Mile End Nursery, and which, 

 in 1834, was 10 ft. high. This last tree has since been sold, and removed to 

 the garden of the Rev. T. Williams, at Hendon, Middlesex. This species is 

 generally propagated by layers ; though it might, probably, be grafted on the 

 Montpelier maple. Where a miniature arboretum is formed in a small garden, 

 this species may be considered valuable, as exemplifying the order Aceracese, 

 in a space not larger than what would be required for a herbaceous plant. 



statistics. The only specimens worth recording in Britain are those already referred to at Svon, 

 Chelsea, and Hendon. The plants in the London Horticultural Society's Garden, and at Messrs. 

 Loddiges's, are not above a foot and a.half high. In France, in the Jardin des Plantes, a tree 130 

 years planted is 31 ft. high. In Saxony, at Worlitz, one 55 years planted is 40 ft. high. 



Covimercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, cost 5s. each ; at 

 Bollwyller, where it is considered as synonymous with A. heterophyllum, 

 2 francs each ; at New York, ?. 



App. i. Doubtful Species of A^cer. 



"We have not been able to satisfy ourselves respecting the distinctness oi A, 

 O'palus and A. opulifolium ; and we are very much inclined to think that the 

 sort which we have figured as A. barbatum is a European species, and, con- 

 sequently, not the A. barbatum of Michaux. To us, it appears that the A. 



