78 JOURNAL OF THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM (vol. iv 



C. Macnabiana, C. Benthamii, C. Knightiana, C. glabra, and C. arizonica 

 are growing in South Africa and Australasia but how far these names are 

 correct I am not yet in a position to determine. As a group, Cupressus 

 is a success in many parts of the southern hemisphere visited by me and 

 they have a decided future not only as ornamental trees but as trees for 

 forest planting, but before this can be properly embarked upon their nom- 

 enclature must be straightened out since all species do not thrive equally 

 well. As with other trees some are better suited to certain localities than 

 others but since different species are in different places known under the 

 same name it is impossible to say much about the behavior of the dif- 

 ferent species. 



The Chamaecyparis do not promise to succeed though Chamaecyparis 

 Lawsoniana Pari, has been much planted in New Zealand, Victoria and else- 

 where but almost exclusively as an ornamental tree. Occasionally good 

 specimens are seen as on Mt. Lofty near Adelaide and the same is true of 

 C. nootkatensis Sudw. The Japanese species are a failure except here and 

 in gardens yet in Natal I think that the Formosan C . formosensis Mat sum. 

 should be given a good trial. In the old Mason garden near Wellington 

 there are fine old trees of Libocedrus decurrens Torr. but I saw none of 

 special merit elsewhere. In New Zealand a few small plantations of 

 Thuja plicata D. Don under the name of T. gigantea have been made but 

 their rate of growth is very ordinary and there is nothing to indicate that 

 this tree will be of value there or elsewhere in Australasia. In fact apart 

 from Cupressus none of the exotic Cupressineae give promise of being 

 important as a source of timber though several are useful ornamental 

 trees in the southern hemisphere. 



Several species of Juniper were long ago introduced into the southern 

 hemisphere as ornamental trees. Recently attention has been drawn 

 to them as possible supplies of wood for pencil making but it seems doubt- 

 ful if they will be of use for this purpose in the antipodes. A number of 

 the tree species grow very well but the rate of growth is not rapid. If any 

 species is likely to be of value I should think it would be the gigantic 

 Juniperus procera Hochst. so important a tree on the highlands of Kenya 

 Colony, equatorial Africa, and north to the mountains of Abyssinia. 

 The largest Junipers I saw were of the Bermuda species (J. barbadensis L.) 

 in the town of Maritzburg, Natal. They grow on some church property 

 and the trees are fully 60 feet tall and 8 feet in girth of trunk. I saw this 

 tree in several other places in South Africa and also in eastern Australia 

 but though many were nice specimens they were inferior in size to those 

 in Maritzburg. In eastern Australia and Tasmania I saw good trees of 

 J. excelsa Bieb. and this with the Bermuda Juniper appear to grow better 

 than others. Both J. virginiana L. and J. chinensis L. have been planted 

 but neither are any great success though the American species does fairly 

 well on parts of the Canterbury Plain, New r Zealand. At Hobart there 

 are shapely trees of J. drupacea Labill. and in the various Botanic Gardens 



