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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
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(see fig. 24). August 15, 1891.) THE GABDENEBS CHRONICLE. 189 It is possible that A. Volxemi is a form of insigne;all that we can say upon that point is, that it wasnot recognised as insigne by Boissier himself nor byother botanists who have collected in the Caucasus.Neither does it agree with any specimen of insignethat we have seen in the London herbaria. Withgreat deference to our colleagues who hold different 2. A. Trautvetteri.This was described from the Caucasus by theRussian botanist, Medwedjeffs, in 1880. From theremarks and figures on this species by M. Wolf ofSt. Petersburgh, Dr. Dieck and Professor Wittmack,in the Garten Flora, 1891, p. 2G3, we were led to theconclusion that this might be the same as our A. is quite different from insigne, and moreover thatour A. insigne velutinum was rightly so named. 3. Acer insigne var. velutinum.The next Maple of which we have to speak wasreceived from M. Van Volxem, under the same labelas A. Volxemii. It was obvious from the first that
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Fig. 24.—a hardt Caucasian maple : Acer insigne, var. velutinum. leaves eownt on the under-surface flower ; immature and mature seed-vessel. views, we nevertheless retain our opinion as to thespecific distinctness of Van Votxems Maple. Foravenue planting, or where hardihood, rapid growth,and noble foliage are desiderata, we advise a trial ofthis tree ; with us it is growing in garden soil over-lying thick clay, and grows so rapidly that as ourspace is very limited it has to be headed back everyyear. On the sand at Kew it does not thrive so well, Volxemi. To settle this point, we applied to Pro-fessor Wittmack, the Editor of the Garten Flora,who kindly sent leaves of our Volxemi and of A.insigne velutinum to Dr. Dieck, who travelled in theCaucasus last autumn, and saw both trees in theirnative country. We are now in possession of Dr.Diecks reply, which is to the effect that our Volxemiis probably the same as A. Trautvetteri, and that it it was quite different from that, being of much

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