ARBORETUM NOTES. 173 
CONIFERZ. 
CUPRESSINEA: 
even before it is twenty years old, the lower main Cryptomeria 
branches become very long and bare, with tufts 
of green leafy shoots at their extremities only; 
and the look of the tree generally becomes scraggy, 
compared with what it was at an earlier age. 
This is the case even with the fine specimen 
in the arboretum, and much more with the two 
others of about equal age, one of which now 
eeamicas near the east. cormer of the . Pleasure 
Ground; and the other in the Vicarage Grove. 
The large Cryptomeria in the arboretum has 
for several years past borne abundance of cones, 
and ripened perfect seeds, from which numerous 
young plants have been raised. I have observed 
also a few cones on the tree in the Vicarage 
Grove, but none as yet on the others. The male 
(or stameniferous) flowers are in small oblong pale 
yellow catkins, which appear in great numbers in 
the axils of the leaves near the ends of the year’s 
shoots; they last in a green or immature state 
through the winter, shed their pollen in the early 
spring, and remain a long time in an empty and 
withered state on the branches. ‘The cones are 
solitary and terminal, on separate shoots from 
those which bear the male flower, but generally 
near tothem. In their earliest stage they appear 
merely like a small thickening of the end of 
the shoot, with a slight enlargement of the leaves. 
