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appears to be worth a good trial under forest conditions in this 
country, especially as it gives good results as an ornamental specimen. 
It is found on the western coast of N. America, from southern 
Alaska to Mount Jefferson in Oregon, its best px ‘oportions being 
attained about the coast region of British Columbia, in Vancouver 
Island and in islands off the coast of Alaska, where it ascends to 
an elevation of from 2000 to 3000 feet. Further south it reaches 
an altitude of 4000 to 5000 feet in the Cascade Mountains. 
Mature specimens are met with up to 100 feet in height with a 
- diameter of from 5 to 6 feet. Elwes, lc. v. p. 1196, records 
one on the road from Longmire Springs to Paradise Valley 
on Mount Rainier, as being 108 feet high and 17 feet 10 inches 
in girth above a place where it forked at 6 feet from the 
ground, and 26 feet in girth below the fork. The largest tree 
recorded in England measured, in 1908, 61 feet in height and 
5 feet 7 inches in girth. This had been grown in the open and was 
well branched and of perfect shape. Several othet examples 
between 50 and 60 feet in height are aie is ese dimensions 
may be considered as fairly satisfactory, Semen that the species 
does not grow naturally to a very large size and that the trees in 
question are probably less than 50 years old, for it is only about 60 
years since it was first introduced into Europe, through the medium 
of the St. Petersburg Botanic Garden, though it was discovered by 
Menzies half-a-century earlier. 
Writing a the wood of this tree in “ American Woods,” x. 
o. 240, pp. 39-40, Hough, says :—“ It is light but creck hard 
ei brittle, of exceedin ely fine, close grain, with a pleasant resinous 
odour, easily worked and very durable in contact with the soil. It 
"is of a clear, Bene yellowish colour, with thin, lighter coloured sap- 
~ wood.” o says that for cabinet-making it has few equals and 
that it is seposted to China, where it is used as a substitute for 
satin-wood. 
Elwes, ge p- 1197, says :—“ Though looked on as an ornamental 
tree only, my experience of it on poor dry soils justifies me in 
thinking that. if it could be procured at a reasonable cost, it would 
be one of the most valuable trees for such soils that can be planted ; 
because it is not only absolutely hardy under all conditions in every 
part of the country, but will thrive where no other tree whose 
timber at all approaches it in value, except perhaps the larch, will 
grow to any size. Though a slow grower at first, and not likely to 
attain in this country the dimensions of Zhuya plicata, it has all a 
contrasts the growth of the Yellow Cypress with that of the 
Corsican Pine. Six trees of the Cupressus planted in 1876 or 1877 
were, at the time he wrote, 35 feet high and 2 feet in girth, uniform 
in height and habit. Corsican Pines planted close by at the same 
time averaged 40 feet in height. 
No difficulty should be experienced in obtaining American seed 
of = tree ee comparatively young Fdige in this oenny 
