The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 464
30 ft. in diameter, soon dividing into branches of great size, bearing adense mass of digitate leaves, with axillary flowers, solitary, very large,with white petals and purple anthers. There can be no question of thisbeing the largest known tree. Though introduced to Britain so long agoas 1724, it… … handsome on their first expansion, but put on a very different appearanceat a more advanced period {b); both flowers and fruit (c) are pendent.Humboldt speaks of this tree as the oldest organic monument of ourplanet. Adanson makes the following calculation of its age, diameter ofthe trunk and…
