Taxodium 
distichum 
162 ARBORETUM NOTES, 
CONIPERA 
CUPRESSINEZ. 
There were, originally three in the arboretum, 
but one of them fell into a sickly and declining 
state; and I had it cut down a few years ago. 
Another in the western part of the arboretum 
(too near to the great Deodara) much younger than. 
those before mentioned, but its date is not re- 
corded. This one has been cut down because 
it was so near to the Deodara, as to interfere 
injuriously with its beauty. (March, 1872). 
There is also a young one in the Vicarage Grove. 
The deciduous Cypress has never yet fruited 
nor even flowered at Barton, though some of our 
trees of it are above 4o years old. 
The largest specimen we have, measures 
scarcely three feet round the trunk. It grows 
very slowly with us, yet it looks healthy, and its 
foliage is beautiful. Perhaps our soil or climate 
is too dry for it. I remember to have formerly 
seen a fine tree of this kind at Harling, in Norfolk 
(the seat, at that time of Lord Colborne), bearing 
cones abundantly, but unluckily I neglected to 
make any note of them. Henry has senteame 
cones from Abergwynant* (produced on a_ tree 
much younger than some of ours), but they differ 
remarkably in shape from those described 
and figured in books. Catesby, Lambert, and 
Michaux all represent the cones as spherical, or 
* Col. Bunbury’s place in Wales. 
