C. LAWSONIANA 17I 



question was some nine or ten years later, when it 

 was introduced in Lawson's nursery at Edinburgh 

 and brought before the notice of cultivators This 

 conflict in names and dates reads like the perpetration 

 of an anachronism somewhere. Perhaps the learned 

 lexicographers were among the prophets, or men 

 in advance of their time. The C. Sempervirens, or 

 Roman Cypress, is the native tree of Cyprus. 

 We read in an Eton boy's verse, that — 



Many a Greek historian's riddle 

 ^ May be solved by Scott and Liddell. 



One seems to have been propounded here by the 

 authors of the sources of solution. 



This very fact, that it has so many forms, may he 

 a reason that we find it to be planted more abundantly 

 than any tree of its kind in the gardens and grounds 

 of Great Britain. Like a fashionable sartorial estab- 

 lishment, it has styles to suit all forms and shapes. 

 It has varieties that suit all environments, from such 

 earthly distances as a mixed plantation to a walled-in 

 cemetery. So far we have not seen it under agricul- 

 tural conditions, with self-pruned trunks and bared 

 stems. At some future time perhaps another genera- 

 tion will meet it more often as a tree under these 

 conditions, both it and the Thuya Plicata. Perhaps 

 some day belts of them will be cultivated as wind 

 screens, and left standing for the next crop to seek 

 their shelter from, until such a day when its economic 

 value is appreciated at a value as it is in its Oregon 

 native home, and it finds a home in our English 

 timber yards and lumber markets. 



Upon some comparative differences of these four 

 species of Chamaecyparis, Lawson, Nootkatensis, Ob- 

 tusa, Pisifera, we have made analysis in the Table 

 of Differences and will proffer a few more remarks 

 on the subject. 



