1200 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



I do not find that the strong, and to most persons offensive smell, which is 

 present in the leaves and bark of this tree, is noticed in the wood except when 

 freshly planed, and this smell soon disappears after exposure. 



A small importation of this wood which I recently purchased in Liverpool, has 

 been tested by my house carpenter, who reports that it takes a finer surface and 

 absorbs less polish than any soft wood he knows. 



Mr. J. R. Anderson, 1 Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia, 

 writes to me as follows, in reply to my inquiry as to this timber : 



" It is a grand wood, and you are quite right in designating it the finest of the 

 N. American coniferous woods. It is a tree of slow growth, and therefore close 

 grained. A specimen I have which was cut on the Nanaimo river, where it grew on 

 good soil not far above sea-level, shows 137 rings for 13 in., that is at the rate of 

 about 10 years to the inch, assuming that the rings represent a year's growth ; and 

 at high altitudes it is reasonable to expect a still slower growth. The soil that it 

 affects is not what may be termed poor, but rather of a peaty cold nature, and in 

 this latitude high up on the mountains. Two to four feet is a good size, and I have 

 seen quite extensive groves at the base of Mount Arrowsmith, and elsewhere where 

 the size is much less." 



Mr. Anderson enclosed me a letter from Mr. C. Harrison, who states that 

 yellow cedar claims were, in 1907, for disposal at 3^ dollars per acre, which would 

 carry on an average about 12,000 ft. board measure to the acre, with a quantity 

 of spruce and hemlock in addition. But the obligation to cut all timber within a 

 few years which existed under the Government leases of timber lands in British 

 Columbia, and which was described by one of the best authorities in Canada as 

 insane, offers no inducement to any one to take up timber limits in the province, 

 who has not the intention and the means to realise everything that can be got 

 to market at a profit, and then abandon the land as quickly as possible. 



CUPRESSUS LAWSONIANA, Lawson Cypress 



Cupressus Lawsoniana, Murray, 2 in Edin. New Phil. Journ. i. 292, t. 10 (1855); Hooker, in 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5581 (1866); Murray, in Lawson, Pinet. Brit. ii. 191 (1866); Masters, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxi. 353 (1896); Sargent, Silva N. Amer. x. 119, t. 531 (1896); 

 Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 205 (1900). 



Cupressus fragrans, Kellogg, in Proc. Calif. Acad. i. 103 (1857). 



Cupressus nutkanus, Torrey, in Bot. U.S. Explor. Exped. Wilkes, ii. t. 16 (1874). 



Chamcecyparis Lawsoniana, Parlatore, in Ann. Mus. Stor. Nat. Fir. i. 181 (1864); Sargent, 

 Trees N Amer. 84 (1905). 



Chamcecyparis Boursierii, Carriere, Conif. 125 (1867) (not Decaisne). 3 



A tree attaining in Oregon about 200 ft. in height, and 6 to 1 2 ft. in diameter 

 above the abruptly enlarged base. Bark on old trunks, 3 to 10 in. thick, reddish 



1 In Canad. Forestry Convention Report for 1906, p. 71, Anderson says that the strong but rather unpleasant odour 

 is objectionable to insects. The Indians make canoes and carvings of the wood. 



2 This description is reprinted in Gard. Ckron. 1855, p. 372. 



3 Chamacyparis Boursierii, Decaisne, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, i. 70 (1854), is Juniperus occidentalis, Hooker. Cf. 

 Gard. Chron. xi. 726 (1879). 



