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CONIPERA:. 
the Chinese in their cemeteries. Joseph Hooker Cupiessts 
found it cultivated about the Buddhist temples 
in Sikkim, but introduced thither from China, not 
being a native either of Sikkim or Bootan. He 
describes it as a magnificent tree, growing as 
much as eighty feet high, forming “irregular 
“cones of pale bright green, with naked gnarled 
“tops; the branches weep gracefully, but not like 
‘the picture in Macartney’s ‘ Embassy to China,’ 
‘whence originated the famous willow pattern of 
“ourcrockery. The ultimate branchlets are very 
‘slender and pendulous. The trunk quite erect, 
‘smooth, cylindrical and pine-like.” (Himalayan 
‘ Fournals, v. 1. 336). 
CUPRESSUS NUTKAENSIS. 
Hooker (W. 7.) Flora Borealt Americana. 
Gordon, Pinetum, p. 66. 
CHAMAECYPARIS NUTKAENSIS. 
Parlatore in D. C. Prod. vol. 16. p. 465. 
THUIOPSIS BOREALIS of Gardeners and Nurserymen. 
Our oldest specimen is one which we planted cupree 
in 1862, in the newest part of the arboretum 
(‘‘Sorcerer’s”’ paddock), now (1877) very healthy 
and vigorous and has borne cones since 1873, 
but not plentifully. Another in Vicarage Grove 
planted (for Mr. and Mrs. Mills), 1868. 
