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leaves and curious hom-like projections at the 

 scale-tips of the cones being well pronounced in 

 both. Like the Chinese Juniper, one of the 

 greatest points of attraction in Cupressus Goveniana 

 is the pollen-cones, they being so thickly produced 

 as to impart to the specimen a very unusual and 

 beautiful appearance. The seed- cones, too, are 

 freely produced, and are of the most harmonising 

 tints of dark and light brown, and rendered dis- 

 tinct from every other species by the curious 

 projections at the scale-tips, each of these being 

 half an inch long. To the casual observer, Cupres- 

 sus Goveniana looks like a dwarfed, globose 

 specimen of the better- known C. macrocarpa ; 

 indeed, it is always bushy and dense of habit. 

 The finest specimens of this and many other 

 cypresses that I have seen are throughout Ireland, 

 both north and south ; and one of C. Goveniana 

 only thirty miles from Belfast is nearly 40 feet 

 high and fully half that in branch spread. It 

 occupies no sheltered situation, and yet the foliage 

 is green as a leek, and thickly and equally arranged 

 on every side of the tree. The soil is moist loam. 



C. Goveniana glauca is, for ornamental 

 purposes, superior to the species, the hoary, 

 glossy blue foliage-tint reminding one of that of 

 the Tamarisk-foliaged Juniper. This pretty variety 

 is rare in cultivation, but it should not remain so 

 long if the batch of young plants that I saw are 

 to be placed on the market. 



C. Lawsoniana, Murray. The Lawson Cy- 

 press. (Synonyms : Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana, 

 Parlatore; C. Boursierii, Carriere.) North Cali- 

 fornia (Shasta), Oregon. 1854. — A thoroughly 



