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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
Identifier: arboretumetfr04loud (find matches)
Year: 1854. (1850s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Trees; Shrubs; Plants
Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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tained the height of 80 ft.; with a trunk 8 ft. in circumference at 3 ft. from the ground; and the diameter of the head 48 ft. This was in 1817. (See Neill's Jlort. Tour, p. 9.) The palace gardens at Lambeth have, since that period, been surrounded by numerous buildings, including several manufac- tories, which have killed many trees, and injured all of them, more or less, by their smoke. Nevertheless, in May, 1837, when we saw this tree, and had the portrait,7?g. I960., taken of it, it was estimated at upwards of 100 ft. in height. A tree in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, planted by Miller, in a con- fined situation, but having its roots within reach of the Thames, is estimated at upwards of 115 ft. in height, with a trunk nearly 5 ft. in diameter at a foot from the ground. When cut down, the Western plane stoles like the other species, and produces much more vigorous shoots; but, as these seldom ripen completely, tiiey are very liable to be injured by frost. Varennes de Fenille mentions two trees of the American plane, which, after being 28 years planted, measured, the one 5 ft. 7 in., and the other 5 ft. 5 in., at 2 ft.

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