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ARBOKETUM AND f RUTICliTUM. 



PAKT III. 



which is recurved. When mature, the scales are thick, fleshy, rough, and 

 opening lengthwise. The seeds are naked, ovoid, somewhat angular, reddish 

 brown, and containing a kernel of the same form, but white. The fruit re- 

 mains on the tree during winter, and opens and sheds its seeds with the first 

 warm weather of spring. It is a native of China and Ja[)an ; and, according 

 to Miller, it was first sent to Europe by the French missionaries. It has been 

 in cultivation in England since 17o2, and is a more compact-growing and 

 handsomer species than the American arbor vitae. It is quite hardy in the 

 climate of London, where, in fine seasons, it ripens seeds. These are generally 

 sown in pots immediately after they are gathered in autumn, in which case the 

 plants come up the following summer ; but, if the seeds are not sown till 

 spring, they frequentl}' do not come up for a year. Layers generally require 

 two years to root sufficiently; and cuttings are rather more difficult to 

 strike than those of Z'.occidentalis. In a young state, the plants are some- 

 what tender; but they become quite hardy when old, even in the cUmate of 

 Edinburgh. The largest trees of this species in the neighbourhood of London 

 are at !Syon, and are nearly 20 ft. in height; there are also large trees on 

 both sides of the road between London and Turnham Green. 



Sfathfics. In the environs of London. At Mount Grove, Hampstead, 18 years planted, it is 14 ft. 

 higli, the diameter of the head 8 It. ; at Ham House, Essex, it is 25 ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk 1 ft. 6 in., and that of the head •2S ft. — South of London. In Surrey, at Farnham Castle, 50 

 year:! old, it is 45 ft high, the diameter of tl;e trunk 2 ft. 4 in., and that of the head 30 ft. ; at Clare- 

 mont, it is .30 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head 15 ft ; at Nutfield, it is 24 ft. 

 high, and the diameter of the head 17 ft. In Sussex, at Westdean, 11 years planted, it is 14 ft. high, 

 the diameter of the trunk 8 in., and of the head 8 ft. In Bedfordshire, at Southiil, 22 years planted, 

 it is 25 ft. high. In Berkshire, at Bear Wood, 12 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. In Denbighshire, at 

 Llanbede Hall, 15 years planted, it is 21ft. high. In Staffordshire, at Teddesley Park, 14 years 

 planted, it is 14 ft. high. In Warwickshire, at Coomb Abbey, 60 years planted, it is 31 ft. high. In 

 Worcestershire, at Croome, 30 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. — In Scotland. In the environs of 

 Edinburgh, at Gosford House, 14 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. In Ayrshire, at Auchencruive, 40 

 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. In Perthshire, at Taymouth, it is 40 ft. high. In Stirlingshire, at 

 Callendar Park, it is 23 ft. "high. — In Ireland. In the environs of Dublin, in the Glasnevin Bota- 

 nic G.irden, 30 years planted, it is 15ft. high ; at Cypress Grove, it is 15ft. high. — In France. At 

 Paris, in the Jardin des Plantes, 35 years planted, it is 3ti ft. high ; at Sceaux, 10 years planted, it is 

 20 ft. high. In the Botanic Garden at Toulon, 36 years planted, it is 29 ft. high ; at Nantes, in the 

 nursery of M. Nerrieres, 40 years old, it is 29 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8 in. ; at Avranches, 

 in the I'.otanic Garden, 4') years planted, it is 29 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the 

 head It) ft. — In Hanover, in the Giittingen Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, it is from 8 ft. to 

 IC ft. high. — In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic Garden, 35 years planted, it is 

 30 ft. high ; at Briick on the Loytha, 411 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. — In Prussia, at Berlin, at 

 Sans Souci, VO years planted, it is 20 ft. high ; in the Pfaucn-lnscl, 6 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. — 

 In Sweden, in the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 10 ft. high. — In Italy, at Monza, 24 years planted, 

 it is 20 ft. high. 



Commercial Statistics. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, Is. 6d. 



each ; at BoUwyller, 1 franc ; and at New York, 50 cents. 



5. T. CUPRESStil^DES L. 



iii. Cyparissa. 

 The Cypress-like, or African, Arbor Vitae. 



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Identification. Willd. Sp PI., 4. p. 510. ; Lin. Mant., 125. ; Thunb. 



Prod., 110.; N. Du Ham., 3. p. IG. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. 



p. 322. 

 Si/noiiyme. T. ai)h5''lla liiirm. PrO(Ir.,9.T. 

 Eni^raving. Out Jig. 231(). of the natural size. 



Spec.Char.^Sfc. Branchlets round. Leaves imbri- 

 cated in 4 rows, oblong, depressed, smooth. 

 Cones globose, somewhat 4-angled. ( IVilld.) A 

 native of the Cape of (jood Hope. Introduced 

 into Kew (iardens, by Dr. Roxburgh, in 1799. 

 Fig. 2.31(3., of the natural size, is from a specimen 

 of a young plant which bears the name of Y'hnja 

 cnpressciidcs in some of the nurseries ; but, as 

 none of tiie plants exceed 2 ft. in height, and very 

 little is known of their origin, the correctness of 

 the ajiplication of the name may reasonably be 

 doul)ted. 



t 6. T. pk'.vsilis Lamh. The pensile Arbor Vita:. 

 Jdentijicaliim. Staunt. Embass., p. 436. ; Lamb. Pin., 2., No. tiS. 



