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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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eat quantity of seeds collected, and sent toFrance, from which young plants have been raised. When grafted, M. Michauxobserves that the operation should be performed as near the collar of the stockas possible; when, if the stocks are in a deep fresh soil, the grafts will pushshoots of from 6 ft. to 9 ft. long the first season. Sinlislics. In the environs of London, the largest tree is at Syon, where, in 1834, it was 5-1 ft high,the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. .3 in., and of the head 3+ ft ; at Kew, it is upwards of 50 ft. high ; Inthe Horticultural Societys Garden, 10 years planted, it is.0 ft. high. (Seethe plate of this tree inour Ia.<t Volume.) In Rutlandshire, at Belvoir Castle, 4 years planted, it is 10 fl. high. In France,in the Jardin des Plantes, 55 years planted, it is .)8 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 21 in., and ofthe head .jO ft.; at Sccaux, 30 vears planted, it is 50 ft. high ; in the Botanir Garden nt Rouen, it i», 4 7. 3 14.12 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART TIL
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near Milan, IS years planted, it is 18 It. nign. CHAP. cr. ULM\ CE;E. CELTfS. 1 1 1 3 Commercial Stathtics. In English nurseries, the plants, being little known,are sold for 2.1. (id. each, and upwards; but, if in demand, the price would notbe higher than that of grafted eiras, or about 1*. each. At Bollwyller, plantsare 1 franc 50 cents each. i 2. P. Gme^lin/ Michx. Gmelins Planera. IdmtificcUwn. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 248. ; Desf. Hist, des Arbres et Arbri-ss., 2. p. 44fi.Synonymes. P. wlmifblia ,V«cA.r. Arb. Amer., 3. p. 2S3. t. 7 , Kor//i Amer. Syha,3. p. 1(H). t. 130., K. Oil Ham. Arb., 7. p. 65. t. 21.; P. aqiiatira MUM. Sp. Fl.,^ p. <tfi7., Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 115.; Anoi)yniu.s aquaticuij arbor, &c., ffalt. Carol., 230.Engravings. Michx. Arb. Amer., t. 7. ; North Amer. Sylva, 3. t. 130. ; Dii Ham. Arb., oil. nov., 7. t. 21. ; and our Jig. 1251. Spec. Cliar.ySfc. Flowers in heads, opening before the leaves are protruded,and l)orne on branches or branchlets

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