464 THE FIK-TEEE FAMILY. 



• Cedar of Lebanon — (Cedrus Libani.) A dark, rich, massive, and majestic tree, 



the branches, when allowed space, spreading horizontally, in distinct layers. 



• Deodara — {Cedrus Deodara.) Light, airy, and graceful, — a vegetable fountain, 



feathered to the ground, and tapering to a point, like the larch. The Styal 

 specimen, twenty-five feet high, is the tallest near Manchester. An exceed- 

 ingly fine one may be seen in Burnage Lane, before the house lately occupied 

 by Mr. Thomas, near the Bishop's ; and another at Mrs. Mason's, W'halley 

 Kange. 

 Silver Cedai" of Mount Atlas — (Cedrus Atlantica.) 



• Araucaria, or ChiU Pine — (Araucaria imbricata.) One of the most curious 



trees in nature ; the trunk quite straight and erect, the branches in rigid, 

 horizontal whoi'ls of six, seven, or eight, and turning up at the ends ; the 

 leaves broadly lanceolate, pointed, and densely imbricated, and the general 

 aspect of the tree that of a great crowd of writhing serpents, captive and 

 seeking to free themselves. The finest Styal specimen is fourteen feet high. 

 (The largest near Manchester is at Sir James Watts', Abney Hall, Cheadle ; 

 and the next largest at Mr. Bull's, Didsbury.) 



• Welhngtonia — {IVellingtonia gigantea.) Several fine young trees, four to five 



feet high. (The tallest in this district is at North Bode, Macclesfield, 

 measuring over seven feet.) 



• Red-wood — {Sequoia or Taxodiuvi sempervirens.) 



CUPEESSINEa;. 



• Common Juniper — {Juniperus communis, E. B. xvi. 1100.) 



• Common Savin — (Juniperus Sabina, and variety prostrata.) 



Nepal Juniper — (Juniperus recurva.) Fragrant, and droops as if withered. 

 Pencil-wood Cedar — (Juniperus Bermudiana.) 

 Red Cedar — (Juniperus Virginiana.) 



• Chinese Juniper — (Juniperus Ghinensis.) Piemarkable in having two kinds of 



leaves upon it. 



• Oriental \rhor--vitiG— (Biota or Thuja Orientdlis.) 

 Weeping Arbor-vitse — (Biota pendula.) 



Yellow Arbor-vitre — (Biota aurea.) 



• Common or American Arhor-vitce — (Thuja Occidentalis.) Tho well-known, 



popular, and strongly scented evergreen. At Styal, twenty-two feet high. 

 Giant Thuja — (Thuja gigantea.) The most beautiful of the Arbor-vitic group, 



both in colour and form. Native of California. 

 Ware's Thuja — (Thuja Wareana.) 

 Chilian Arbor-vitre — (Libocvdrus ChiUrisis.) 

 Large Califomian Cypress — (Cu2)rissus macrocdrpa.) 

 Gowen'8 Cypress — (Cuprlssus Govcniana.) 

 Knight's Cypress — (Cupressus Knightidna.) 



• Deciduous Cypress — (Taxudium dintichum.) Twenty-eight feet high. 



• Japan Cedar — (Cryptomvria Japonica.) The finest tree of this species, near 



Manchester, is in a garden by tho roadside at Sale, about a hundred yards 

 nearer town than Mr. Yates's. 



