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Title: Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Trees Shrubs Plants
Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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0 years, when it is fit to be cut down fortimber purposes; and, on good soils, it is more than doubtful whether it willlive much more than 100 or 130 years. When the tree is cut, the woundsheal quickly over, so as to leave but very slight scars; and, when branches arecut oflT close to the trunk, it is not liable to throw out fresh shoots. Accord-ing to German authors, the beech, when treated as coppice-wood, will continueto send up shoots till it has attained the age of 30 or 40 years, but seldom toa greater age; and, hence, it is not well adapted either for coppice or under-wood. The tree, when under a course of nursery culture, and before it isremoved to its final destination, suffers severely from the removal of any of itsbranches; but, when once established as a hedge, it bears pruning as well asany other tree. The branches of the beech, particularly in woods, being muchcrowded, and having a smooth bark, arc i)articularly liable to cross ami grow CHAP. CV. CohylaVea;. FA(iU.s. 195
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into each other, and, as it were, inosculate; ami hence, accoriiing to sonic, itwas this tree that <;avc the first idea of graftinji. A curious example will hefound under the head of Acriiloits oud Dltcascx. (itography. The common beech is a native of the temperate parts ofEurope, irom the soutli of Norway to the Mediterranean Sea, and fromEnghuid to Constantinople. It is also found in Palestine, Asia Minor,Armenia, and Mazanderan. In Norway, it is found as far north as o9°, infavourable situations ; and, in Sweden, to 58°. According to Pallas, it isplentiful in the southern provinces of Russia, and in Caucasus; but it is notconunon in the plains; and it is nowhere to be found in the northern pro-vinces. It abounds in the forests of Poland, and in Lithuania. The line ofbeeches on the Alps rises to the elevation of 51.32 ft., between lat. 45)° and46^°; the snow line being .3848 ft. higher. (Von Biic/i, as quoted by //. C.fVafsnu.) In Switzerland, the beech occupies the south sid

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