50 CONIFEROUS TREES 



The finest specimen I have seen, and from 

 which these notes were compiled, was growing in 

 the flower garden at Penrhyn Castle, North 

 Wales, and attained to the noble height of fully 

 50 feet. At Claremont, in Surrey, I have also 

 seen a well-developed specimen. The timber is 

 clean, firm, and of a desirable mahogany colour, 

 and polishes nicely. At the Surveyors' Institution, 

 London, a large slab of home-grown timber of the 

 Cunninghamia, which I sent there from Esher 

 Place in 1895, shows well the quality and graining 

 of the wood. Sandy loam, with a free admixture 

 of decayed vegetable matter, suits the Cunning- 

 hamia well. 



C. SINENSIS GLAUCA is well explained by the 

 name, the foliage having a decidedly glaucous 

 tint, which appears to be constant. 



CUPRESSUS, LinncBus 

 (Including Retinispora and Chamcecyparis) 



THE CYPRESSES 



Flowers monoecious ; males spiked, cylindrical ; females 

 rounded. 



Cones woody, globular, or oblong, and with numerous seeds 

 to each scale. They vary from one-quarter to nearly 2 inches 

 in diameter. 



Scales peltate, from six to ten, terminating in a more or 

 less curved point. 



Seeds numerous, winged, inserted on the upper interior 

 surface of the scales. 



Cotyledons leafy, mostly two. 



Leaves scale-like, closely imbricated, never, in two ranks, 

 but generally four-rowed. 



Branches irregularly arranged along the stem. 



Buds not scaly. 



