SKETCH OF THE CONIFER^ OF JAPANv 



Mf 



V- 



it shows blotclies undei' its [test qx skuL, Cotyledgug ixom ^ 



to 7 in number. 



The folIo\Ying is the account given of this tree, and of his 

 discovery of it, by Mr. Fokxune : — 



*' X have been acquainted Avith this interesting tree for severaT 



Pi§. 177. * 



Fig. 178; 



Pig. 



17&. 



Fig. 176. 



years in China, but only in gardens, and" as a pot plant in a 

 dwarfed state. The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, 

 contrive to make it when only a foot and a half or two feet high, 



have all the characters of an aged Cedar of Lebanon. It is 



