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; (14587107699)

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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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. This tree was large and wide-spreading, affording shade in summer,and shelter in the winter, to the stock turned out to pasture on the common ;and, before it was injured by the lightning, often attracted attention from thenumber of animals which were collected under it, and which it covered. Fromthe time of its being struck, however, not a head of cattle was ever seen nearit; the animals not only refusing to avail themselves of its shade, but obviouslyavoiding the tree, as if it were disagreeable to them. The above facts werefirst communicated to the Magazine of Natural History (vol. ii.), by the Rev.T. W. Salmon of Weston Rectory, and have been since sent to us, for thiswork, by Mr. Girling of Hovingham, Norfolk. The roots of the oak not being so liable to rot in the ground as those of thedm, the beech, and other trees, full-grown oaks are, consequently, not so liableto be blown down by high winds as the elm. The height of the oak being less CHAP. CV. corylace/t. (^uf/ucus. 181 r-5
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in proportion to its breadth than that of most other trees, inaj be another reasonwhy it offers a firmer resistahce to storms. Notwithstanding this, terrible de-vastation has sometimes been effected among oak trees by the wind; and oneof the most fearful instances occurred in October, 1831, when a destructivehurricane ravaged a considerable portion of the park of Thorndon Hall, theseat of Lord Petre, near Brentwood. The following account is abridged fromthat sent to the Alagazinc of Natural History by J.G. Strutt, Esq.:— The blastcame on about eight oclock, and in less than four minutes the work of havocwas completed. The wind came from the south-west, and entered the parknear the Lions Lodge, where it threw down a small portion of the paling.It then traversed the park in a varying sweep of about 150 yards breadth.Near the lodge, several oaks, 60 ft. high, were torn up by the roots, withadhering masses of earth, Hft. in length, and from 3 ft. to 4 ft. in thickness. 6 H 4 1814 AIIBOR