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 272
the kitchen-gardenwall. The Lord Chief Baron, in forming the garden, left a bankof peat standing, after the rest had been carted away and burned,as a trophy to show the strongly marked contrast between theimprovements of human art, and nature in her wildest form.This spot of ground is called the… … Fir; but it might have been more appropriately called the banyanspruce, on account of its branches having taken root whereverthey have come in contact with the spongy soil. In this speci-men {^g. 87.} to a scale of 1 in. to 12 ft.), the rooting appearanceis seen in a very remarkable degree, in…
