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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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ch //^. 1923. is a portrait, to the scale of Iin. to 30ft.; andwhich is 112 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk, at 1 ft. from the ground, 7 ft.4^ in., and of the head 91 ft. 6 in. By far the handsomest tree of this speciesin the neighbourhood of London, is that at Muswell Hill, figured in our lastVolume,which is 06 ft. high, with a trunk Oft. in diameter at a foot from theground, and the diameter of the head ii.early 70 ft. This tree has been plantedbetween 70 and 80 years. No tree stoles more tVeely than the sweet chest-nut, at whatever age it may be cut over. Gcograp/it/. The sweet chestnut is found in the east and west of Asia,in the north of Africa, and in North America. In the Old World its coun-tries are more particularly Asia Minor, Armenia, and Caucasus; but it isalso found in the (.anaries, and in Tenerifle. It does not grow sponta-neously to the north of Tereck, in the Russian empire; and it docs not ripen 6 N 2 1986 ARBORF.TllM -AND FKUTlCr.TUM. PARI 111. •vuV,snV;^w1«
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its fruit any where except in a climate thut will ripen the grape also in theopen air. There are several species found in Java, Japan, Cochin-China, China,and the Himalayas; and one of these is supposed to be identical with C. vesca,(Mirbel.) In Britain, the sweet chestnut is by some considered to be indi-genous ; but, notwithstanding the great age of some specimens, it appears tous more than probable that they have all been planted. This doubt is noticedby Ray and Evelyn, and was warmly taken up by Daines Barrington, aboutthe middle of the last century; and the discussions which took place betweenthat gentleman, M. Ducarel, and some others, will be found in the PhilosophicalTransactions, vols. lix. and Ixi.; and in the Gentleman^ Magazine^ for 1766.(Seep. 23.) In the English F/oj-a, the chestnut is stated to be found inwoods; and it appears to be wild in the south and west of England. It hasbeen planted in Scotland, and sometimes ripens a few fruit in the warmestdistricts of East Lot

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