ten feet high, and has stood out unprotected for several years, 

 without being injured. The Kew plant is certainly the" same 

 species as the one in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, which is 

 there kept in a greenhouse during the winter, which circum- 

 stance causes the branches and shoots to be long 



slenderer 



and 



those of th 



Kew plant ; but young plants 

 struck from cuttings of each have no perceptible difference. 

 It is surprising that this beautiful and hardy evergreen, so 

 long introduced, has not become more common in collections. 



and particularly as the pi 



trikes freely from cuttings of 



the 

 The 



the two or three years old wood, if taken off early 

 autumn, and treated like cuttings of other Coniferse. 

 Chelsea plant originally belonged to Mr. Loddiges, who gav 

 it to Mr. Lambert, and the latter presented it to the Chelsea 

 Garden. It is very distinct from the Juniperus pendula of 

 some Continental Collections, a plant much of the same habit 

 of growth but with much shorter shoots. 



Mr. Loudon says he 



informed 



Mr. Smith, the 



Curator of the Botanical Garden at Kew, that the fruit which 



the plant in that collection bore 



1835 closely resembled 



Juniper. We, however, see no such resemblance. The fruit 



tially that of 



Arbor Vitae 



from which 



but the Chinese Arbor Vitse has 



cannot be regarded of impor 



the only difference 



the seeds being destitute of a wing 



so slight a wing, that this 



The accompanying figure was taken in the Garden of 

 the Horticultural Society. 



