Sequoia 
Sempervirens 
168 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFER. 
CUPRESSINEZE. 
always recovered. The description in Gordon’s 
Pinetum is good. The bark (of the main trunk 
of trees between 10 and 20 years old), is remark- 
able :—very thick, and of a peculiarly soft, spongy, 
and elastic texture, as if padded, being composed 
of very loose cellular tissue, bound together by 
loosely interlacing longitudinal fibres; its colour, 
dark reddish-brown. 
In the older parts it is pretty deeply fissured, 
but does not show a tendency to flake off in 
long ragged strips, as does that of cryptomeria. 
The male catkins make their appearance 
generally in December, and in 1862 came to 
perfection towards the end of January. The 
female (seed-bearing) cones, which first appeared 
in January, 1862, ripened towards the end of 
January, 1863, and have remained on the tree 
in a dry and empty state a full year longer. 
I presented some of the cones to the Linnean 
Society in 1863, when Kippist told me that they 
were the first (of English growth) he had seen. 
The fine tree in the arboretum has) Ggam 
(January, 1864), abundance of both male and 
female flowers; but whether they will come to 
perfection will of course depend much on what the 
weather may prove to be in the latter part of the 
winter. 
The ripe cones are of a dull brown colour, 
