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

 without heing 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 longer and 

 slenderer than those of the 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 plant strikes fi-eely from cuttings of 

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

 autumn, and treated like cuttings of other Coniferse. The 

 Chelsea plant originally belonged to Mr. Loddiges, who gave 

 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 was informed by Mr. Smith, the 

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

 the plant in that collection bore in 1835 closely resembled a 

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

 is essentially that of an Arbor Vitse ; the only difference 

 from which consists in the seeds being destitute of a wing : 

 but the Chinese Arbor Vitae has so slight a wing, that this 

 cannot be regarded of importance. 



The accompanying figure was taken in the Garden of 

 the Horticultural Society. 



