ARBORETUM NOTES. 163 
CONIFER. 
CUPRESSINEZ. 
very nearly so; but these from Wales are oval, 
their length almost half as much again as their 
breadth. 
They are, however, quite green and unripe, and 
it is quite possible that they may alter in shape as 
they ripen. The disks of the scales are remark- 
ably rugged and knobby. 
Loudon’s description of this Cypress, is very 
good, except that he has omitted to mention the 
beauty of the autumnal colouring. The leaves 
keep their light and delicate green colour till 
pretty late in the autumn, and then assume a 
peculiarly soft and pleasing, light red brown; in 
this latter state they remain on the tree often till 
the end of November. 
The finest deciduous Cypress I have seen is at 
Embley, near Romsey, in Hampshire, (Mr. S. 
Smith’s, formerly Mr. Nightingale’s). 
This tree stands very near the house; it has really 
the character of a tree, rising with a robust, straight 
bare trunk to (I should guess) 2oft. before a branch; 
its girth 83 feet; with a fine dense pyramidal head 
of beautiful foliage. As this tree stands close to 
the house, on the slope of a hill, its remarkably 
vigorous growth can hardly be owing to any great 
moisture of the soil. 
Taxodium differs from cupressus not only in the 
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Taxodium 
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