CUP 



CUP 



the evergreen and deciduous ornamental tree arc evergreen, flat, sharp, very short, imhricafed, 

 l;ind. " and rcsL-nibIc those ot' the Arbor N'ltx, being 



It bclone:* to the class and order Monoecia small, and of a browner irrucn than in the Com - 



Movadilplua, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Cori'/'erce. 



The characters are : that the male flowers are 

 dirposed in an ovate anient : the calyx coninioa 

 ament, ovale, composed of scattered flowers ; 

 consistiny; of sinaie-flowered scales, roundi-ih. 



mon C'vpress : the fruit ib a blue '^one no larger 

 ilian the bcrrv of the Jumper. It is a native <■>( 

 Nnrth America. 



The fourth i< a small tree, having a claueous 

 appearance, witli ihc l)ranchcs spreading irregu - 

 larlv, and bcndini' tlownwards : the leaves arc 



acuminate on their fore-part, peltate, opposite, giandiilnse, spiral, and imbricate: the llowers 



about twenty in number: there is no corolla: 

 the stamina have no filaments ; the office of 

 them is borne by the calycine scale, to which on 

 the lower i)art grow four anthers : the female 

 dowers are heaped into a roundish cone on the 

 same plant : the calyx is a common strobile, 



like those of the first species. 



in Portugal it grows to a large limber tree, bul 

 is here seldom above fifteen lect high. It grows 

 naturally at Coa. 



Ciil/iiiL-. — These plants, in all the sorts, may 

 be raised either from seeds or l>v cuttinsrs ot ihc 



roundish, composed of from eight to ten florets, young shoots; but those procured troia seedf 



consisting of sineie-tlowered scales, which are are by much the best plants. 



opposite, ovate, convex beneath, gaping : there In the first method, the seed, being provided 



is no corolla: tiie pistillum is a germ scarcely and obtained from the cones, by exposing them 



evident : numerous points appear within each to a moderate degree of heat, should be sown 



calycine scale ; supposed ccrms without styles, towards the latter end of Alarch, or beginning 



each with a simple stigma; siibtruncate, con- of the following month, on a warm bed or l-.or- 



cave at the tip : there is no pcricariiium : stro- der where the soil is rather libiht and mellow, 



bile slobosc, shut, iraping willi orblcuiale scales, and has been rendered line by being well du2; 



whic-h are aiiiiularand peltate beneath : the seeds over, covering it in to the depth of about half an 



several, oblone, angular, subulate, small. inch. When the season proves dry, slight wa- 



The species are : 1. C. sempervirens, Ever- tcrings should be occasionally given, and du- 



green Cypress ; '2. C. dislicha, Deciduous Cy- ring the summer the plants be kept free from 



press Tree ; 3. C. thyoides. White Cedar, or weeds, and be watered a little when the weather 



Arbor Vitas-leaved Cypress; -1, C.//e«(/«/fl, Por- is hot. In the winter time ihev should be pro- 



tugal Cypress. tected from frosts by mats or other contrivances. 



The first has an upright stem, rising to the They must be continued under tiiis management 



height of fifteen or twenty feet, with many round till they have attained two years' growth, when 



branches, either growing upright, or spreading they may be removed in the beginning of 



abroad; strigose and toothed with the rudiments the spring, and planted in nursery rows in a 



of leaves: the fronds are dichotomous, subqua- warm situation, at the distance of eighteen 



drangujar; leaflets alternately opposite, dccurrent, inches or two feet, and eight inches or afoot 



subcarinate, the olderones distant and nuicronale, apart. When they have had three or four years 



the vouneer closely imbricate : the fruit globular growth in these rows they will be in proper 



or somewhat ovate, on the sides, or at the ends of condition for heins; finally set out where thev are 



the branches ; when unripe of a dark green co- to remain. The best time for performing thi: 



lour. It is a native of the Levant, &c. 



It has been distinguished into the upright, 

 and horizontal or spreading kind. 



The second species rises with a large erect 



business is in the beginning of spring. 



They may, however, be raised in a more ex- 

 peditious manner, by sowing the seeds in pots 

 or tubs of light earth, and plunging them in a 



stem or trunk to the height of fifty or sixty moderate hot-bed, as in tiiis way they will be 



feet in its native situation, sending out regular fit for removing into nursery rows in the course 



branches to a great distance. The leaves are of twelve months. 



small, spreading, and deciduous, placed in a disti- As seed of this sort is slow in yegetating, 



■chous manner, oralong two ^ides of the branches, this last method is the most proper for it, as 



The third grows to a considerable size in its shade may fee more conveniently provided du- 



native situation; but in this climate seldom rises ring the summer months, and protection in a 



much higher than fifteen feet : when raised trom sunny exposure in the winter; and when the 



cuttings, it has rather the appearance of a shrub, plants do not appear in the course of the first 



and is not above nine orten feet high : the branches year, the aid of a hot-bed may be eonxmiently 



are numerous, and stand two ways; the tree na- had in the following spring, by which they 



turally forms itself into a regular head; the leaves wi|^ be brought forward with cxpedilioH t» 



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