70 CONIFEROUS TREES 



of colour. Raised in a French nursery about 

 1850. 



C. THYOIDES NANA is a dwarf and pretty form 

 with bright, shining green foHage, especially when 

 planted on damp soils. 



C. THYOIDES VARiEGATA has some of the branch 

 tips of a golden yellow, but the amount of varie- 

 gation differs considerably with the particular 

 specimen. 



C. TORULOSA, Don. (Synonym : C. Toume- 

 fortii, Tenore.) Temperate Western Himalaya. 

 1824. — For planting where space is confined, few 

 trees are better adapted than the one in question, 

 the easy though columnar habit of growth, slender 

 branchlets, and bright glaucous foliage being all 

 desirable acquisitions. It prefers a mild climate 

 such as prevails in the western and south-western 

 counties. The branches, which are thickly pro- 

 duced, have a decided upward tendency, but are, 

 nevertheless, not painfully so, as is the case with 

 some conifers, for the tufted branchlets, with 

 their easy arranged foliage, deprive it entirely 

 of all stiffness and formality. The cones are 

 globose, from i to ij inches long, produced in 

 dense clusters, and composed of about ten scales 

 with seventy seeds. In cutting up the timber of 

 a specimen that had attained to 43 feet in height, 

 I found it hard, close-grained and fibrous, of a 

 pleasing purplish yellow colour, and very fragrant, 

 the latter being distinctly recognisable even when 

 the tree was being felled. 



C. TORULOSA CoRNEYANA, Curriere, is of dwarf 

 and more spreading growth than the species, and 

 with the branches more lithe, slender, and drooping. 



