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mass of humps, knobs, and enormous warts, and the necrosis, 
from which it suffered and only got rid of a few years ago, left a 
longitudinal dead strip, forming about the fourth part of its 
bark. (Fig. 114.) 
There are, in addition, several other remarkable trees, such as 
Diospyros Lotus , 188 years old, 80 m. high and 2 m. in cir¬ 
cumference ; by botanists of the past called Guajacumpatavinum. 
Ginkgo biloba, 148 years old, 16 m. high and 2 m. 30 cm. 
in circumference. Grafts from the female plant have been 
inserted on the original male plant, so that the tree now pro¬ 
duces both male and female flowers, and blossoms abundantly. 
Two Magnolia grandiflora, of same age as the Ginkgo. They 
are, one 16 m. 50 cm., and the other 17 m. 20 cm. in height by 
1 m. 75 cm. and 2 m. in circumference. These two Magnolias 
seem to have been the very first introduced into Italy. 
Gymnocladus canadensis, 138 years old, formerly 21 m. high 
and 2 m. 60 cm. in circumference. This tree, which was 
covered nearly to the top by a beautiful specimen of Wistaria 
sinensis, was on the 4th June, 1896, wrecked by a hurricane, and 
only a stump of 6 m. now remains. (Fig. 115.) 
Cedrus Deodar a, seventy years old; 22 m. high by 
2 m. 50 cm. in circumference. 
Populus alba, 138 years old; 30 m. 50 cm. high, by 3 m. 50 cm. 
in circumference. 
Cary a olivceformis, 138 years old; about 40 m. high and 
2 m. 30 cm. in circumference. This tree is the tallest in 
Padua. 
Cedrus Libani, 138 years old ; 19 m. in height and 1 m.90cm. 
in circumference. 
Liriodendron tulipifera, .138 years old; 31m. high and 
2 m. 30 cm. in circumference. 
The different glass-houses contain the following specimens 
worthy of note 
Cycas revoluta, about 118 years old ; the trunk measures 
1 m. 62 cm. by 1 m. in circumference. 
Todea rivularis, having a circumference of 65 cm. 
Tornelia fragrans. 
Astrocaryum Chonta, 70 years old and 2 m. 8 cm. high. 
Cycas circinalis, about 100 years old ; 1 m. 25 cm. high and 
50 cm. in circumference. 
