Sequoia 
giganten 
Cryptomeria 
japonica 
l¥2 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFER. 
CUPRESSINES. 
I have seen no male flowers, either on the same 
plant, or on any of the others here. | 
(October, 1869). This year, many of our 
young Wellingtonias are bearing cones, some 
of which are of a good size. I have seen no male 
flowers. Dr. Hooker tells me that he has known 
other instances of the same occurrence; but 
he does not believe that the seeds contain a 
perfect embryo. 
CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA. 
Don, in Linn..Trans., v. 18, 167. 
Hook, Ic. Plant..v. 7, tab. G66. 
Endlich. Syn. Con. 72. 
Gordon, in Fourn. Hort. Soc., v. 1, 57. 
Syn. Cupressus Faponica.—Thunberg. 
The Cryptomeria succeeds very well at Barton, 
grows very fast, and is quite hardy, not having 
suffered at all from the terrible winter of 1860-61. 
The finest of the kind here is one in the arbore- 
tum, planted in 1848; it is of very regular and 
symmetrical growth, of a regular conical form, 
with its lowest branches quite lying on the ground 
and altogether very handsome; yet certainly less 
so than it was a few years ago. For it seems 
a constant habit of the tree to throw off its 
secondary branches (the side branches proceeding 
from its main branches), very early; whence, 
