324 BRECK'S BOOK OF FLOWERS. 



" Cupressics thyoides. The White Cedar. This is always 

 a graceful and beautiful tree. Even when growing in its 

 native swamps, hemmed in on all sides, and struggling for 

 existence, the top, and branches too, near the top, will be 

 marked by a characteristic elegance of shape, which no other 

 of the family possesses. It is entirely free from the stiffness 

 of the Pines, and to the spiry top of the Poplar, and the 

 grace of the Cypress, it unites the airy lightness of the Hem- 

 lock. The White Cedar connects the Arbor Vitae with the 

 Cypresses. It has the characters of both; the scale-like, imbri- 

 cate leaves and fan-shaped branches of the former, and the 

 lofty, port and globular, or many-sided, fruit of the latter." 

 (Emerson.) 



We are not aware that this beautiful native tree has been 

 cultivated for ornamental purposes ; we see no reason why it 

 should not. It may be easily raised from seed, which require 

 eighteen months, if planted in autumn, to vegetate. From its 

 dense mass of thick foliage, it will make a fine protecting 

 screen, whether grown as a hedge or as a belt of trees. 



Cupressus semper vir ens. The Common Cypress of Europe. 

 " This is a tall, graceful, plume-shaped tree, the common and 

 suitable ornament for burying places on the Levant ; suc- 

 ceeds in the open air in various parts of Britain, and would 

 probably succeed in sheltered places here." 



JUNIPERUS. 







The Juniper. 



" The Junipers are evergreen trees or shrubs, found in all 

 quarters of the globe." 



Juniperus Virginiana. The Red Cedar. Savin. This 

 is a very common evergreen tree, of low growth, found in great 

 abundance in the neighborhood of Boston, with rather dark, 

 sober-looking foliage. Although so common and monotonous in 

 its appearance on the rocky shores of Massachusetts, it may be 



