38 DWABF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



endeavouring to propagate it now from cuttings in order 

 to ascertain whether it will retain its existing form or 

 revert to Beissner's dwarf " balls." 



C. Nutksensis, Spach. 



Syn.: Cupressus Nootkatensis, Lamb. 



Thuya excelsa, Bong. 



Thuyopsis horealis, Carr. 

 The Nootka cypress inhabits North- West America — 

 British Columbia, Alaska, and south to Oregon. It is 

 extremely hardy, and although introduced as long as the 

 Lawson cypress, it has never been cultivated to the same 

 extent, which possibly accounts for the fact that there 

 are so few dwarf forms of it recorded. Its branchlets are 

 quadrangular and pendulous. 



C. Nutkaensis, var. ericoides (" Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 1904, 

 ex Beiss., ii. 536, 89). 



A distinct seedling found by Herr Von Saghy in Kamon, 

 Hungary. A juvenile form. Leaves radial, linear, 

 pointed ; set fairly close together, terminating in a needle- 

 like point ; rather thick ; upper side blue-green, under side 

 keeled; 5 to 8 mm. long by 1 mm. broad. 



This is another apparently fixed juvenile form, with 

 characteristic heath-like foliage. Its leaves are stouter 

 than those of any other form under the name of " var. 

 ericoides,'" except those of the juvenile form of C. ohtusa, 



C. Nutkaensis, var. compacta, Beiss. 



Syn.: Thuyopsis borealis compacta, Hort. 

 Beissner describes this as a pretty, compact thick 

 bushy form making a rather loose blue-green globular 

 bush. There is a form of this with light green foliage 

 known as var. viridis. In my garden it has made a 

 compact narrowly oval upright bush about 4 feet high 

 by 18 inches through. Branches and branchlets very 

 crowded, ascending and compressed branchlet sprays with 

 tips recurving. Colour blue-green. 



