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needle-like leaves which tend to fall away. It fruits freely, but is 

 of slow growth and is apparently less hardy than the type. First 

 raised in France about 1850. 



Var. nana, Endlicher. 



A dwarf form making a compact, rounded bush with glaucous 

 leaves. Suitable for the rock-garden. 



Var. variegata, EndUcher. 

 The greenish leaves mixed with blotches of yellow. 



The white cypress is recognized from the other species of the 

 section Chamcecyjjaris by the flattened, fan-shaped branchlet 

 systems and the small glaucous cones. 



As a native tree C. thyoides has its headquarters in the Atlantic 

 and GuK States. It flourishes in maritime swamps and extends 

 from Maine to N. Florida and westward to Pearl River, Missis- 

 sippi, but it does not occur far inland. It was introduced by Peter 

 Colhnson in 1736, but seldom becomes a large tree in this country. 



C. thyoides is a valuable timber tree in America. The wood 

 is light reddish brown darkening with age, fragrant, easy to work, 

 and suitable for building purposes, fence posts and telegraph 

 poles, cooperage, mine timbers, etc. In addition to newly 

 felled timber, large quantities of the wood are found buried in salt 

 marshes in S. New Jersey, where no timber now grows. Trees 

 200-1,000 years old are found lying across each other, some partly 

 decayed and others sound ; these trunks have been dug up and 

 the sound wood sawn into shingles. 



The species has no value for forest planting in Britain, and 

 is not of first importance as an ornamental tree. 



Rev. Hort. 1880, p. 96. 



Cupressus torulosa, Don. (Fig, 48.) 



A large tree attaining in the Himalaya a height of 150 ft. and 

 a girth of 37 ft. Bark about ^ in. thick, brown, peeling off in 

 long, narrow strips. Branches horizontal or ascending, forming 

 a broadly pyramidal crown, the branchlets pendulous at the tips. 

 Branchlet systems flattened, bi- or tri-pinnate, the ultimate divi- 

 sions curved and whip-like. Leaves regularly arranged in 4 ranks, 

 closely pressed, j,- in. long, ovate, blunt, often pitted on the 

 back. Young cones green, often with a plum-coloured tinge, 

 ripening in the second year, dark brown when mature, on short 

 recurved stallis, globose or ellipsoid, ^ in. in diameter ; scales 

 8-10, with the centre of the outer surface depressed and bearing 

 a small, triangular, often recurved process. Seeds 6-8 on each 

 scale, ^ in, long, pale brown, winged. 



