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given by Mr. Fortune, and which accompanied it on 

 its introduction to this country, will convey a more 

 perfect idea of its general character than anything we 

 could say of it. He describes it as " a noble-looking 

 fir tree, about sixty feet high, with a stem as straight 

 as the Norfolk Island Pine, and pendulous branches 

 like the weeping willow. The branches grow at first 

 horizontally with the main stem, then describe a 

 graceful curve upwards, drooping again at the points. 

 From these main branches others long and slender 

 hang down towards the ground, and give the whole 

 tree a weeping and graceful character." 



CUPRESSUS GOVENIANA. Gordon. 

 (Gowen's Cypress.) 



A bush ten or twelve feet high on its native hills m 

 California, but, if we may judge by the progress which 

 it makes with us, it will attain a much greater height 

 in this country. Branches numerous, horizontal or 

 somewhat spreading, covered with bright green foliage, 

 which emits, when pressed, a very fragrant odour. A 

 highly ornamental species. 



CUPRESSUS GLAUCA. LamarcL 

 (Cedar of Goa.) 



SYN. Cupressus lusitanica. Miller. 



Cupressus pendula. L'Heritier. 



A tree fifty feet high, with many spreading flexuose 

 branches, the branchlets somewhat pendulous. A 

 native of Hindostan. Not very hardy in this country, 



