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ARBOUETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PARI- III. 



which is recurved. When mature, the scales are thick, fleshy, rough, and 

 opening lengthwise. The seeds are naked, ovoid, somewhat angular, reddish 

 brown, and containing a kernel of the same form, but white. The fruit re- 

 mains on the tree during winter, and opens and sheds its seeds with the first 

 warm weather of spring. It is a native of China and Japan ; and, according 

 to Miller, it was first sent to Europe by the French missionaries. It has been 

 in cultivation in England since 1752, and is a more compact-gi'owing and 

 handsomer species than the American arbor vitEe. It is quite hardy in the 

 climate of London, where, in fine seasons, it ripens seeds. These are generally 

 sown in pots iumiediately after they are gathered in autumn, in which case the 

 plants come up the following suumier ; but, if the seeds are not sown till 

 spring, they frequently do not come up for a year. Layers generally require 

 two years to root sufficiently ; and cuttings are rather more difficult to 

 strike than those of T. occidentalis. In a young state, the plants are some- 

 what tender; but they become quite hardy when old, even in the climate of 

 Edinburgh. The largest trees of this species in the neighbourhood of London 

 are at Syon, and are nearly 20 ft. in height; there are also large trees on 

 both sides of the road between London and Turnham Green. 



Statistics. Ill the environs of London. At Mount Grove, Hampsteaci, 18 years planted, it is U ft, 

 high, the diameter of the head 8 (t. ; at Ham House, Essex, it is 2.') ft. high, the diameter of the 

 trunk 1 ft. 6in., and that of the head '•23 ft. — South of London. In Surrey, at Tarnham Castle, 50 

 years old, it is 45 ft high, the diameter of tl.e trunk 2 ft. 4 in., and that of the head .'>Oft ; at Clare- 

 mont, it. is ;30ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 fl., and of the head 15 ft ; at N'utlield, it is 24 ft. 

 high, and the diameter of the liead 17 ft. In Sussex, at Westdean, 11 years planted, it is 14 ft. high, 

 the diameter of the trunk 8 in., and of the head 8 ft. In Bedfordshire, at Southill, ii^ years planted, 

 it is 25 ft. high. In Berkshire, at Bear Wood, 12 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. In Denbighshire, at 

 Llanbede Hall, 15 years planted, it is 21 ft. high. In Staffordshire, at Teddcsley Park, 14 years 

 planted, it is 14 fl. high. In Warwickshire, at Coomb Abbey, 60 years planted, it is 31 ft. high. In 

 Worcestershire, at Croome, 30 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. — In Scotland. In the environs of 

 Edinburgh, at Oosford House, 14 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. In Ayrshire, at Aucheiicruive, 40 

 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. In Perthshire, at Taymouth, it is 40 ft. high. In Stirlingshire, at 

 Callendar Park, it is 23 ft. high. — In Ireland. In the environs of Dublin, in the Glasnevin Bota- 

 nic Garden, 30 years planted, it is 15ft. high ; at Cypress Grove, it is 15ft. high. — In France. At 

 Paris, in the Jardin des Plantes, .35 years planted, it is 3fi tX. high ; at .Sceaux, 10 years planted, it is 

 20 ft. high. In the Botanic Garden at Toulon, 36 years planted, it is 29 ft. high ; at Nantes, in the 

 nursery of M N'crrieres, 40 vears old, it is Si) ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8 in. ; at Avranchcs, 

 in the Botanic Garden, 4i) years planted, it is 29 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the 

 head 16 ft. — In Hanover, in the CJiittingen Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, it is from 8 ft. to 

 left, high. — In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic Garden. 35 years planted, it is 

 30 ft. high ; at Briirk on the Leytha, 4(» years planted, it is 2l) ft. high.— In Prussia, at Berlin, at 

 Sans Souci, HO vears planted, it is 20 ft. high ; in the Pfauen-Insel, 6 years planted, it is 10 ft high. — 

 In Sweden, in the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 10 ft. high. — In lUly, at Monza, 24 years planted, 

 it is 20 ft. high. 



Commercial Slatktics. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, 1*. Gd. 

 each ; at Bollvvyller, 1 franc ; and at New York, 50 cents. 



5. T. 



§ iii. Cyparissa. 

 CLPREssoi^DES L. The Cypress-like, or African, Arbor Vitae. 



Willd. Sp PI., 4. p. 510. ; Lin. Mant., 125. ; Thunb. 

 N. Du Ham., 3. p. 16. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. 



Identification. 



Prod., 110.; 



p. 322. 

 Siptonyme. T. aph^lla Burm. Prodr.,^. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 2316. of the natural size. 



Spec.Char.ySfc. Branchlcts round. Leaves imbri- 

 cated in 4 rows, oblong, depressed, smooth. 

 Cones globose, somewhat 4-angled. ( Willd.) A 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced 

 into Kew Gardens, by Dr. Roxburgh, in 1799. 

 Fig. 23 IG., of the natural size, is from a specimen 

 of a young plant which bears the name of Zliuja 

 cupresstiides in some of the nurseries ; but, as 

 none of the plants exceed 2 ft. in height, and very 

 little is known of their origin, the correctness of 

 the application of the name may reasonably be 

 doubted. 



i 6. T. pe'nsilis Lamb. The pensile Arbor V 



Identification. Staunt. Embass., p. 43G. ; Lamb. Pin., 2., No. 63. 



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