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 (19563841509)
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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 ...
Identifier: arboretumetfrut04loud (find matches)
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Trees; Shrubs; Botany; Botany
Publisher: London : J. C. Loudon
Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences
Digitizing Sponsor: California Academy of Sciences
Text Appearing Before Image:
2036 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART 1
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1956 largest we know of, however, (of which fig. 1957. is a portrait, taken in May, 18.'47,) stands in the grounds of Lambeth Palace, adjoining a magnificent specimen of P. occidentalis ; it is 90 ft. high, with a trunk 4 ft. 6 in. in dia- meter. The platanus, when of not more than 50 or 60 years' growth, stoles readily when cut down to the ground, and, when so treated, will make shoots in one season of 6 ft. or 8 ft., or even more, in length. Geography* The Oriental plane is a native of Greece, and of other parts of the Levant: it is found in Asia Minor, and Persia, where, according to Koyle, it extends as far south as Cashmere. (Illust.) According to Pallas, it is doubtful whether it is indigenous to Georgia, though there are trees of it there, with trunks 12 ft. in circumference, and of a great height. On Mount I it is not much higher than a shrub. It is found on the coast of Bertary, as it is in the south of Italy, and in Sicily; but is probably not in- digenout to those countries. (See Ilutori/.) On Mount Etna, it is found as high at 2000 ft. above the level of the sea. It is not a gregarious tree, seldom usive masses; and the inviduals, when of large size, are always found on plains, and in a light deep soil, not far from water. Olivier tells us that it it Common on the banks of the rivulets in Greece, in the islands of the Archipelago, and on the coast of Asia Minor; but he never found it of â larj cept in good soil near water.
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