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timber, but in many southern cities, particularly New 

 Orleans, it will be found to enter into the composition of 

 almost every building. 



In the nurseries, the Cypress is usually propagated from 

 the seed ; and as it sends down strong roots, it should be 

 transplanted where it is finally to grow before it attains too 

 great a development. 



The European Cypress {Cupressus sempervirens), a 

 beautiful evergreen tree, shaped like a small Lombardy 

 poplar, which is the principal ornament of the churchyards 

 and cemeteries abroad, is unfortunately too tender to 

 endure the winter in any of the states north of Virginia. 

 South of that state, it may probably become naturalized, 

 and serve to add to the catalogue of beautiful indigenous 

 evergreen trees. 



From its dark and sombre tint, and perpetual verdure, it 

 is peculiarly the emblem of grief: 



" Binde you my brows with mourning Cyparesse, 

 And palish twigs of deadlier poplar tree. 

 Or if some sadder shades ye can devise. 

 Those sadder shades vaile my light-loathing eyes." 



Bp. Hall. 



The Larch Tree. Larix. 

 Nat. Ord. Coniferae. Lin. Syst. Monojcia, Monadelphia. 



The Larch is a resinous, cone-bearing tree, belonging 

 to the Pine family, but differing from that genus in the 

 annual shedding of its leaves like other deciduous trees, 

 [n Europe it is a native of the coldest parts o " the Alps 

 and Appenines ; and in America, is indigenous t > the most 



