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may not, in the opinion of some, shed ^ny very 

 lambent light on the subject, still it may be the first 

 awakening to the fact that we are looking at a tree 

 of far rarer appearance in England than the Macro- 

 carpa, or even the Sempervirens or Roman Cypress. 

 It may interest readers to learn that there is a 

 tree growing here (Stanage), at an elevation above 

 the sea of a very little less than 800 feet, planted in 

 December 1842, and, according to an old family 

 document, referred to as the C. Tomentosa Torulosa. 

 It measures 42 ft. in height, and in girth 6 ft. 2 in., and 

 so compared with others mentioned in the Walhalla 

 of remarkable trees of Great Britain (Elwes and 

 Henry), according to measurements and age, was 

 deserving of a niche in those palaces of immortality. 

 Had the authors paid a visit to it before instead of after 

 their Cypress chapters had been published, it would 

 have been accorded, we were informed, the honour of 

 a site therein. 



EU-CUPRESSI 



Group A : C. Funebris, Lusitanica, Arizonica, 

 Macnabiana, Cashmeriana ; and Group B ; 

 goveniana 



Oh, lady, twine no wreath for me 

 Or twine it of the cypress tree. 



Sir Walter Scott. 



The C. Funebris has the reputation of being not 

 hardy, but of some capability of endurance in the 

 climates of the south-west of England and in Ireland. 

 Its life's history with us in brief is : it is a native of 

 Central China ; it w^as discovered in 1793 by Sir 

 George Stanton, attached to Lord Macartney's 

 mission, in an appropriately entitled locality, from 

 whence it was to derive a subsequent name, called 

 the Valley of Tombs. It came to England in 1804 ; 

 failed, and was tried again in 1848. It has a weeping, 



