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border, or for growing in pots for winter furnishing. It never 

 attains a greater height than three or four feet, and forms a com- 

 pact, dense, round bush of a bright golden-green. The variety 

 called glauca, raised by Messrs. Pince, of Exeter, has a silvery 

 appearance, and needs a purer air than aurea, the latter being a good 

 plant for suburban gardens. B. compacta is a bold, dense, round- 

 headed, bright grass- green busb, well adapted for pot culture, and 

 superb for borders. B. pen&ula has a straight stem, and very long 

 drooping branches. It varies much in appearance in different soils 

 and situations, but is always beautiful. The finest of the true 

 Thuias is undoubtedly T. gigcmtea, which grows very upright, and 

 naturally assumes a pyramidal form. It has broad leaves of a fine 

 dark green, the bark of the young shoots being purplish. It is a 

 superb lawn tree. B. Lobbiana and B. occidentalis are both largely 

 used in planting, but the last-named is only good enough for the 

 rear of a mixed shrubbery ; it has no beauty for a specimen, or a 

 conspicuous position in a foreground. All the Thuias are readily 

 adaptable to any kind of soil, and especially occidentalis. 

 Libncedrus chiliensis is a lovely tree with silvery leafage ; rather 

 tender in places exposed to wind, but for the west of England 

 invaluable. In the winter of 1860-61 it suffered severely, and in 

 many places was killed outright. 



Cypbesses. — Generally speaking, the species of Cupressus 

 require a dry soil, but in any well-drained loam they thrive, and 

 the hardy kinds are admirable for garden decoration. The most 

 useful of all, and one that has acquired immense popularity, is the 

 charming C. Laivsoniana, which is one of the hardiest trees in the 

 country. The beautiful fan-like disposition of its well-defined masses 

 of dark green leafage, and the slightly drooping attitude of the 

 leader, give it a character which admirably adapts it for a con- 

 spicuous position where it can have the treatment and the im- 

 portance of a specimen. C. macrocarpa is a fine garden tree, almost 

 columnar in outline, the leafage a peculiar and very cheerful tone of 

 yellowish-green ; a noble subject for a promenade garden. It is 

 very hardy. G. attenuata is a small, slender, graceful bush. G. 

 Benthamiana forms a dense head, the older leaves are dark green, 

 the young leaves slightly glaucous. It is scarcely hardy enough for 

 general use. C. excelsa, C. funebris, and C. Ltmtanica are graceful 

 trees, but scarcely hardy, thriving only in a few favoured localities. 

 C. Ooveniana is a first-class garden tree, very dense in growth, 

 rather pendulous, and attaining from seven to twelve feet in height. 

 It is thoroughly hardy. 



Cbyptomeeia.. — The renowned Cryptomeria Japonica has oc- 

 casioned much trouble to cultivators, for in but few places does it 

 really thrive. Its too frequent behaviour is to turn brown the first 

 season after planting, and in subsequent years to make less and less 

 growth, till it becomes so unsightly that it is gladly got rid of. I 

 advise the lover of trees to give it a trial, no matter what sort of 

 soil he has to deal with, but to avoid extensive planting of it, and the 

 purchase of fine specimens, until convinced by observation that the 

 place is adapted for it. A matter of some importance towards the 



