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C. NOOTKATENSis PENDULA is remarkable for 

 the graceful pendulous branchlets, which remind 

 one of those of the weeping- willow. It is a very 

 distinct form from the Milford Nurseries, Godalm- 

 ing, but, so far as I know, is not yet generally 

 cultivated. 



C. (Retinispora) obtusa, Koch. (Synonyms : 

 Chamaecyparis obtusa, Siehold et Zuccarini ; 

 Retinispora obtusa, Siehold et Zuccarini ; Thuya 

 obtusa. Masters.) Mountains of Japan and For- 

 mosa. 1861. — Although of rather stiff habit, the 

 outline being regularly conical, dense growth and 

 deep green hue, there is something remarkably 

 pleasing and distinct about a well-grown specimen 

 of this Japanese conifer. In this country the 

 tree has attained, in some few instances, to nearly 

 40 feet in height, with crowded branches and 

 flattened, frond-like branchlets, well supplied with 

 small scale -like, sub -acute dark green leaves, 

 which have distinct silvery white Y-shaped mark- 

 ings on the under surface. The cones are quite 

 round, about half an inch in diameter, and 

 composed of from eight to ten scales, having an 

 umbo on their outer surface. C. ohtitsa Crippsi is 

 a very ornamental variety in which the long, 

 pendent, thread-like growths vary from pale 

 sulphur to golden yellow in colour. It is of slender 

 and less dense growth than most of the forms. 



C. OBTUSA FiLicoiDES, whcn sccn in good form, 

 is a desirable variety in which the equally arranged 

 fern-like branchlets, furnished with the brightest 

 green fohage, which is of a silvery tint beneath, 

 are points of recognition. The leaves are imbri- 

 cated in four rows, and the cones are rounded and 



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