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Ginkgo hiloba has in several Danish gardens attained a height of 

 nearly 30 feet, and a circumference of the stem of about 3 feet. * 



Professor Schiibeler says in his " Viridarium " that the only place 

 where this plant is to be found in Norway is the Botanic Gardens at 

 Christiania. In 1839 a specimen four or five years old was planted 

 against a wall facing east, where it grew luxuriantly. The stem had 

 in 1885 a circumference of 22 inches, and the crown was 10 feet 

 high and 7 to 8 feet broad. 



In Southern Sweden, in Skaane and on Gothland, there are to 

 be found examples that are 10 to 15 feet high, but there also the 

 tree grows very slowly. 



It seems as if this tree will live at Viborg, in Finland (60° 45') 

 ("Tidning for Tradgardsodlare," Journal of Horticulture, Stockholm, 

 XX. 52). At Riga (56^ 57') it does well (Johannes Klinge, "Die 

 Holzgewachse von Est, Low- und Curland," Dorpat, 1883, p. 3). 



20. PHYLLOCLADUS.— L. C. Rich. Conif. 129, t. 3 ; Hook. 

 Icon. vi. tt. 549, 550, 551 ; A. Rich. PI. Nov. Zeland. 363 ; Endl. 

 Conif. 234 ; Hook. fil. Fl. of New Zealand, i. 234 ; Carr. Conif. 498 

 and 704 ; Gord. Pin. 139 ; Henk. and Hochst. Nadelh. 370. 

 Podocarpi sp. Labill. Nov. Holl. ii. 71, t. 221. Brownetera, Rich. 

 Mss. Robertia, Rich. Mss. Thalamia, Spreng. Anleit. ii. 218. 



Flowers monoecious, and in close terminal clusters. 



Fruit in small, connected heads, with a fleshy aril. 



Seeds solitary, very small, half enclosed at the base by the fleshy 

 aril, and nut-like, with a thin shell. 



Leaves minute, scale-like bodies, on the margins of the branchlets ; 

 branchlets leaf-like, opposite, pinnate, or fan-shaped and feather- 

 veined. 



Cotyledons two. 



Name derived from phyllon, a leaf, and Mados, a branch— leaf- 

 like branchlets. 



All trees, found in New" Zealand, Borneo, and Tasmania- 

 P. rhomboidalis, L. C, Rich. Conif, 130, t. 3, f. 2. Podocarpus 

 aspleniifolia, Labill. Nov. Holl. ii. 71, t. 221. Salisburia Billardierii^ 

 L. C. Rich. Mss. ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 235 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 48 ; 

 Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 226 ; Carr. Man. des PI. iv. 

 377, and Tr. Gen. Conif. 500 ; Gord. Pinet. 141, and suppl. 43. 



* Specimens of the " Maidenhair-tree " exist in the following places in 

 England, viz. : — (1) Whitfield, near Hereford, in 18G8 was oO feet high, 

 girth 7 feet 2 inches at 5 feet from the ground ; (2) Panshanger, 53 feet 

 high in 1868, girth 8 feet at 6 feet from the ground ; (3) Blaize Castle, 

 Henbury, 1879, a specimen 65 feet high ; (4) Broadlands, 1882, 40 feet 

 high, girth 7 feet at 3 feet up, spread of branches 45 feet ; (5) Eoyal 

 Gardens, Kew, 1889, 60 feet high, girth 9 feet 3 inches at 4 feet up, spread 

 of branches 44 feet ; (6) an old tree of smaller dimensions also exists in 

 Chelsea Botanic Garden. 



