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for those who dwell among then' own people and in 

 places remote from the temperate house at Kew, 

 there is not much chance afforded of following up 

 these points that they bear in common. 



There are some who quite pardonably might imagine 

 that it bore an outward and visible resemblance to 

 certain of the Cephalotaxi family, but the more 

 spiny, slender, grass-like leaves, with their long 

 tapering-to-a-point appearance, of the Cunninghamia 

 dissociate it severely from any Cephalotaxi. There 

 are other and very marked individualities in its 

 foliage. The green leaf of the Cunninghamia is 

 adpressed to the stem, and on the young branchlets 

 retains upon its decurrent length the colour of the 

 leaf. Perhaps the most conclusive clue to its identity 

 lies in the fact that the margins of its leaves are 

 minutely toothed, but not so minutely that it cannot 

 hd recognised without glasses. 



As a tree with us it is, on the whole, little known. 

 It was introduced more than a century ago, but living 

 trees are estimated not to be much more than sixty 

 years old. It has always had a reputation for feeling 

 too acutely the nipping air of northern latitudes, to 

 the detriment of its health, colour, and complexion. 

 It has always rather affected a " sighing for Dixie " 

 appearance, and borne a character for debility. It is 

 supposed to be rather exacting in its demands for 

 heat and humidity, of which, we may safely say, 

 the latter is a more accessible commodity than the 

 former in our particular zone. 



Messrs. Elwes and Henry have recounted observa- 

 tions of quite a fair show of respectably grown trees. 

 One we know of, and one growing well at Coed Coch, 

 N. Wales (the Hon. Mrs. Lawrence Broderick's), have 

 escaped the notice of their chain-harrowing in- 

 vestigations. 



What more concerns us at the present day is the 



