Ci///h'a/u>n.—A\t\un\g\\ a native of a warmer clime, the Fmm- Teeth docs not refufe lo grow,
and even to thrive, in fome places in the fouth of Pmgland and north of France; but its fucccfs is exceptional.
a circumltance which, doubtlcfs, is in part to be afcribcd to improper foil and expofure—the barren
fandy foil in which it abounds in its native country being comparatively rare in England. It is alfo no
doubt due to this that it docs well at Berlin, which is, generally fpeaking, from that vary caufe, one of the
molt unfavourable countries for cuniferous plants.
Loud<m mentions the dimenlions of fpecimens at Syon I louse, Pains Hill, Whitton, Kew, and Dropmore,
which, wben he wrote (in 1S37), were refpedively 75 feet, 60 to 70 feet, 60 feet, 40 to 50 feet, and
38 feet high. We give below a copy of Loudon's figure of one of the Syon Houfe fpecimens.
Mr Palmer's tables (hew only one place where this fpecics was killed in the fevere winter of 1860-61,
viz., at 1 lighnam Court, in Gloucefterfliire ; but as he had only reports from fix places, the ftatiflics are
not of any great value. At the other five places mentioned, which were rcfpectively in Surrey, Bedford-
(hire, Yorklbire, and Fife, none of the plants of this fpecies were injured.
CommercialStatljlics.—Loudon mentions that as feeds are eafily procured from New ii'oik, the fpecies
was not uncommon in London nurferies; and that it was more frequent in collec'tions than moll other
.•\merican [ilants, Whate\'er it may have been in his time, it is not fo now. Whether fi'om fretjuent
failure or want of appreciation of it, and a confequent bad market, it is by no means common in nurferies
or collecliims; fo much fo that, as we have juft feen, there were only fix places in all Britain where Mr
Palmer has obtained reports upon it. The present price of young plants under iS inches high is from
IS. to i.R. 6d. each.