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produce any thing worthy cultivating ? Now, in such places, 

 these trees will thrive wonderfully, and greatly add to the pleasure 

 of the owner while growing, and afterwards render as much profit 

 to his successors, as perhaps the best plantation of oaks." 



Pliny tells us, that in Italy it was considered amongst their 

 most profitable plantations, and was generally cut for poles once 

 in every thirteeen years, and that this fall was called dos filiae, 

 because the profit was reckoned a sufficient marriage portion for 

 a daughter. 



This timber is reckoned amongst the sonorous woods ; it is 

 therefore used for harps, violins, and other musical instruments, 

 and it is said that no wood is better calculated to resist the rava- 

 ges of the worm, 8cc. 



The deciduous cypress tree, cupressus disticha, is a native of 

 North America, and it appears to have been introduced to this 

 country by Mr. John Tradescant, of South Lambeth, where it was 

 planted prior to 1640. We have now two varieties of this species 

 of cypress. 



Cupressus lusitanica, commonly called the cedar of Goa, from 

 whence it was first brought to Portugal, and is therefore named 

 the Portugal cypress. We learn from Mr. Ray's letters, that this 

 species of cypress was cultivated in England as early as 1683, 

 but it is not considered so hardy as the common cypress, and is 

 therefore less planted ; formerly there were some of these trees 

 growing in the Bishop of London's garden, at Fulham, and tnere 

 was a fine tree of this species in the gardens of the Duke of Rich- 

 mond,, at Goodwood, near Chichester, which was killed by the 

 frost in 1740. 



The arborvitae leaved cypress, or white cedar, cupressus thyoides 

 is a native of North America, and Peter Collinson, Esq. had the 

 honour of giving it British soil in 1736. This species grows natu- 

 rally in China and Cochin-China ; it loves a strong moist soil, and 

 abounds in theswamps of New Jersey, and some parts of Penn- 

 sylvania and New York. 



By An Horticulturist. 



