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cypress; and it is useful also wherever an 

 arborvitse might be used, inasmuch as it has 

 the same columnar form. In texture it is more 

 ethereal than the arborvitse, even while it is 

 darker and duller in color; and as it ages it 

 loses its lower branches and gradually becomes 

 broad topped and picturesquely irregular and 

 distorted. Wherefore, though this is not char- 

 acteristic until long after its youth and even 

 middle age are passed, it cannot be used where 

 an absolutely permanent pyramidal or columnar 

 form is required, as the arborvitse can. 



Of the small and interesting conifers from 

 Japan and China that are constantly becoming 

 more available as the stock sent out by the 

 Arnold Arboretum — whence practically all of 

 these have come — is built up by those growers 

 fortunate enough to have acquired it, it must 

 be said that they do seem to meet the desire for 

 diminutive material that will not outgrow its 

 surroundings. But with these, as with all others 

 of this class, be counseled to avoid mixing. If 

 the retinospora is chosen, use only this and of 

 one variety. It will make a fine, dense screen 

 too high to see over, if this is needed, or it will 

 mark the points of the design if such marking 

 seems desirable. It too is, as a matter of fact, 

 a juvenile form; but as it is somewhat re- 



