182 DWAEF AND SLOW 'GROWING C0NIFEE8 



T. orientalis, var. cupressoides, Masters (Journ. Roy. 

 Hort. Soc, xiv. 253, 1892). 



Syn. : Biota orientalis cupressoides, Carr. (" Conif .," 



ii. 97). 



Carriere describes this as having branches short, erect, 



fastigiate. Branchlets and sprays short and spreading, 



the plant recalling Cupressus fastigiata. It was raised 



by Monsieur A. Seneclauze. 



T. plicata, Don. 



Of the Western American thuya, known also as T. 

 gigantea and Lohbi, there is only one dwarf form in culti- 

 vation. 



T. plicata, var. Hillieri. 



Branches very short, stout and thick. Young branch- 

 lets green to red-brown, thick and stiff. Growth irregular ; 

 small branches and branchlets produced in crowded 

 whorls all over main stem, and principal branches forming 

 a congested mass with occasional long branches, shooting 

 out at various angles to main stem, but all more or less 

 ascending. The spray on these stronger branches is 

 pyramidal in shape, and about 5 inches long by 5 inches at 

 its widest part. Foliage bright glaucous green, stout and 

 flattened. 



Raised in HiUier's Nurseries at Winchester. A very 

 irregular bush with fohage so dense that one wonders 

 how hght or moisture can ever penetrate into its centre. 

 I have a plant of this form about fifteen years old, an 

 irregular bush with obtruding branches about 4 feet by 

 4 feet. 



T. Lobbi, var. pumila, Smith ('^Pl. Fir Tribe," 46, 187 ?). 

 Syn. : T. plicata, var. pumila, Sudworth. 



T. Lohbi is an old garden name for T. plicata, Don, and 

 a plant under the name of T. Lohbi, var. pumila, appears 

 in an old catalogue of R. Smith, of W^orcester, dated 1875. 



In the absence of any description, I cannot say to what 

 extent it differs from HiUier's plant. 



