CHAP. CXUI. 



CONl'FER.li. CUPRE'sSUS. 



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those of TTiuja. ( See p. 2460.) The cones, which appear to be ripe in autumn, 



are not perfectly so, but require to hang on the trees till the following March 



or April. They may then be gathered, and placed in a warm room, or in a box 



or basket, and set in a dry stove. In a few days, the scales will open, when 



the cones may be thrashed and the seeds collected : they may be immediately 



afterwards sown, and treated like those of the yibietinae. In England, it is 



common to sow the seeds in flat pans or in boxes ; because, as they are 



somewhat tender when they first come up, they admit of being more readily 



protected by being carried to a pit. Unlike the seeds of the genus jThiija, 



which commonly lie in the ground a year, those of the cypress come up in three 



or four weeks. They grow to the height of 3 in. or 4 in. the first season, and 



maybe transplanted into pots, and kept in a pit through the winter. At the end of 



the second autumn, they may be planted where they are finally to remain ; but, 



if it be thought necessary, they may be kept three or four years in pots ; shifting 



them frequently, or allowing them to remain in the pot unshifted, according 



as the object may be to produce large plants, or to concentrate the roots in a 



small ball, so as to occupy less space in sending the trees to a distance. When 



the cypress is planted where it is finally to remain, and the situation and soil 



are suitable, it may be said to require no farther attention during the whole of 



its existence. It always grows erect, so that no care is requisite to train up 



a leading shoot; and, as its branches occupy little space, it seldom or never 



requires pruning. The only culture which we have ever seen given to it in 



England is, replacing some of the side shoots when their points may have 



been blown out, by a violent storm of wind and rain, so as to protrude beyond 



the regular head: but this happens only in very old trees, and in exposed 



situations ; as, for example at Croome. 



statistics. At Syon, it is 52 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 3 in,, and of the head 8 ft. ; at 

 Fulham Palace, 50 years planted, it is 40 ft. high. In Devonshire, at Kenton, 38 years old, it is 60 ft. 

 high, diameter of the trunk 2 ft. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 44 years planted, it is 44 ft. high. 

 In Surrey, at St. Ann's Hill, it is 35 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 1 ft. In Northumberland, at 

 Heartburn, 80 years planted, it is 35 ft. high. In Suffolk, at Stretton Rectory, it is 63 It. high, with 

 a trunk 2 ft. in diameter. In France, at Avranches, in the garden of M. Brunei, 26 years planted, 

 it is 30 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, ;i50 years old, it is 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 

 6 in., and of the head 20 ft. 



Commercial Statistics. Price of seeds, in London, of both varieties, 65. per 

 pound; and of plants in pots. Is. 6d. each. 



i 2. C. rHYoiDES L. The Thuja-like Cypress, or White Cedar. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 512. ; Kalm It., 2. p. 175. ; Mill. Diet., No. 5. ; Du Roy Harbk., 



2. p. 198. ; Wangh. Amer., 8. t. 2. ; Willd. Arb., 92. ; N. Du Ham., 3. p. 6. ; Bon Jard., ed. 1837 ; 



Laws. Man., p. 391. 

 Synonymes. C. nJina mariana, &c.. Pink. Mant., 61., t. 345. f. I. ; TTiiija sphasroidilis Rich. M^m. 



sur les Conif., p. 45. ; Cyprfes faux Thuja, Fr. 

 Engravings. Wangh. Amer., t. 2. f. 4. ; Pluk. Mant., t. 345. f. 4. ; N. Du Ham. 3. t. 2. : N. Amer. 



Syl., 3. t. 152. ; \Vats..Dend. Brit., t. 156. ; and our^^. 2327. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Branch- 

 lets compressed. Leaves 

 imbricated in 4 rows, 

 ovate tuberculate at 

 the base. ( Willd.') An 

 evergreen tree ; a na- 

 tive of North America. 

 Introduced in 1736 ; 

 flowering in April and 

 May. 

 Variety. 



1 C. t. 2f6liis varie- 

 gatis has clus- 

 ters of the leaves variegated, or blotched, with white. The plant in 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden, after being G years planted is 

 5 ft. high. It was received from the Dun^anstown Nursery in Ireland 

 about 1831. 



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