64 CONIFEROUS TREES 



distinctly reflexed scale protuberances and sulphury 

 yellow catkins should render recognition by no 

 means difficult. It may be well to add that the 

 cones of C. Laivsoniana are almost smooth, or 

 only with a film-like appendage, and the pollen 

 catkins usually bright red. The cones of C. nootka- 

 tensis have four scales and eleven seeds, those of 

 C. Lawsoniana seven scales and nineteen seeds ; 

 while of the former 112,000 seeds go to the pound 

 weight, as against 105,000 of the other. Unfor- 

 tunately, for its value as a forest tree, the stem 

 of C. nootkatensis is invariably carrot-shaped — 

 thick at the base with a rapid tapering upwards 

 — and this is noticeable everywhere throughout 

 the country. 



C. NOOTKATENSIS ARGENTEA-VARIEGATA differs 



only in having some of the branches spotted with, 

 or wholly, creamy white. 



C. NOOTKATENSIS AUREA-VARIEGATA is a beauti- 

 ful and distinct variety for which we are indebted 

 to Messrs. Waterer of the Bagshot Nurseries. It 

 is clearly and regularly variegated. 



C. NOOTKATENSIS COMPACTA is characterised 

 by a dwarfer and more compact habit of growth 

 than the type, and is valuable where space is 

 limited, or for variety. 



C. NOOTKATENSIS LUTEA, of which there is a 

 large specimen at Penrhyn Castle, in Wales, is far 

 more ornamental than the typical tree, the branch 

 tips being of a light and pleasing yellow colour. 

 In this variety the branchlets, being pendulous, 

 and hanging limp and easy for fully i foot 

 in length, render the trees both distinct and 

 desirable. 



