THE TRUE CYPRESSES. 93 



Monterey, in Upper California, and with a far-spreading, 

 branching flat top, like a full-grown Cedar of Lebanon, which 

 it very much resembles when old. It is hardy, and will grow 

 in almost any kind of soil which is not very poor. 



Cupressus MACKOCARPA Crippsi, Hort, Cripps's Variegated 



Large-fruited Cypress. 



Leaves small, open, erectly-spreading, rigid, very acute and 

 spiny-pointed ; and when young, of a beautiful silvery hue, 

 particularly those towards the ends of the shoots. Branches 

 short, stout, stiff, and very compact ; branchlets excessively 

 numerous, small, slender, stiff, very dense, and of a silvery 

 white at the points when young. 



This fine and very distinct variety was raised in the nursery 

 of Mr. Cripps at Tunbridge Wells, from an imported seed of 

 Cuprcssus macrocarpa. 



It is perfectly hardy, and a very striking variety, totally 

 distinct from the orioinal form. 



ClJPRESSUS MACROCARPA FLAGELLIFORMIS, Cripps, the Whip- 



cord-branched Cypress. 



This variety is more open and slenderer than the species, 

 with the branches spreading and somewhat bent down at the 

 ends, and the branchlets and smaller spray long, less divided, 

 land of a light glaucous green. 



A fine graceful variety, of which there are plants in Mr. 

 [Cripps's extensive collection at Tunbridge Wells. 



CUPRESSUS MACROCARPA VARIEGATA, Hort, the Variegated 



Large-fruited Cypress. 



This variety only differs from the original form in having a 

 jlportion of its branchlets of a golden hue. 



