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bridges, a day may dawn when all these three, Lusi- 

 tanica, Arizonica, and Glabra, will be regarded as 

 still nearer akin, if not as actual identities, and one 

 and the same, rather than in the character that they 

 are now looked upon, as tricky impersonation agents 

 one of the other. 



The C. Macnabiana, a native of California, is 

 a bushy several-stemmed tree, that makes but an 

 infrequent appearance with us. It came to England 

 in the middle of last century. It has been found 

 short-lived here, and has not been in much request 

 for cultivation. 



The Cashmeriana may have, and has, we are told, 

 many merits of beauty and interest, but as it only 

 seems to flourish in hot-houses, with one exception 

 mentioned at Rostrevor (Sir John Ross), it rather 

 passes away from any category of trees that we are 

 likely to meet with. 



The Goveniana (from California) though possessing 

 some points of comparison to which we have called 

 attention, never seems to have gained the confidence 

 of nurserymen or planters, and for the substantial 

 reason that it has been tried and found guilty of an 

 unpardonable brevity of life in English climates. 



CHAM^CYPARIS 



Group A : C. Lawsoniana, C. Nootkatensis, C. 

 Obtusa, C. Thyoides, C. Pisifera 



When I am dead, my dearest. 



Sing no sad song for me ; 

 Plant thou no roses at my head 



Nor shady cypress tree. 



Christina Rossetti. 



C .Lawsoniana. — ^When we read that the Lawson 

 Cypress has no less than forty-eight varieties it is 



