THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 



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been cultivated for a very long series of years, and the varieties 

 carefully selected and propagated. 



The variety pendula, which is very distinct-looking, from its 

 weeping slender branchlets and free, not congenitally adnate 

 leaves, produces cones from which seedlings of the ordinary form 

 of T. orientalis have been raised. 



Fig. I. 



Thuya pvsifera. Foliage and 'cones from a cultivated specimen ; nat. size and 

 magnified. 



§ Chamaecyparis, Benth. et Hook. 



T. PISIFEKA. (Fig. 1.*) 



Eetinispora pisifera, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. ii. p. 39, t. 122 ; 



* The illustrations in this paper are reproductions from those which have 

 appeared in the ' Gardeners' Chronicle.' 



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