CONIFEROUS TREES 



PODOCAKPUS NUBIGENA, Lindl 



Paxt. Fl. Gdn. 1851, p. 162, fig. 128 ; Jour. Hort. Soc. London, 1851, vol. vi. p. 264 ; 

 Jour. R.H.S. xiv. p. 234; Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. x. p. 171, fig. 23; id. 1902, 

 vol. xxxi. p. 113, fig. ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 153. 



Discovered in Southern Chili by William Lobb in 1846, and introduced 

 the following year to Exeter. 



A disappointing subject under cultivation, the climatic conditions of this 

 country evidently unsuited to its requirements. 



PRUMNOPITYS ELEGANS, Philippi. 



Syns. Podocarpus andina, Poepp. 



Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 6; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 155; Masters in Jour. R.H.S. 

 vol. xiv. p. 244; Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. xxxi. p. 113, fig. 



Introduced in 1860 through Eichard Pearce, this Conifer has proved 

 hardy over the greater part of Great Britain wherever planted, and in 

 Ireland. 



Specimens are growing at Eastnor Castle ; Tortworth Castle ; Menabilly, 

 Cornwall ; Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow ; in Fota Island, and Lakelands, 

 Co. Cork. 



SAXEGOTEJEA CONSPICUA, Lindl. 



Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. ii. p. 684 ; figs. 130, 131 ; id. 1889, vol. v. p. 782, fig. ; Paxt. 

 PI. Gdn. vol. i. p. Ill, figs. ; Jour. Hort. Soc. London, 1851, vol. vi. p. 258 ; 

 Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 158. 



Discovered by William Lobb in 1846 in Southern Chili, this Conifer 

 attracted great interest on introduction, but hopes entertained of a 

 distinct addition to British Arboreta were not realized, and the Saxegothsea 

 is now rarely seen. 



SCIADOPITYS VEBTICILLATA, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 22 ; Fl. des Serres, 1861, torn. iv. p. 241 ; Nicholson in Woods 

 and Forests, 1884, vol. i. p. 132, figs. ; The Garden, 1890, vol. xxxviii. p. 499, fig. ; 

 Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 287, figs. ; Bot. Mag. t. 8050. 



Thomas Lobb sent the first living specimen of this remarkable tree in 

 1853, having met with it in the Botanic Gardens at Buitenzorg, Java ; it 

 arrived at Exeter in feeble health, and shortly died. In 1861 the late 

 John Gould Veitch brought home seed, and to this source most of the 

 older specimens growing in this country may be traced. It was seen by 

 James H. Veitch in the Province of Mino on the Nakasendo below 

 Nakatsu-gawa, growing by the roadside, but that the trees were growing 

 naturally is improbable. Except in the neighbourhood of Nakatsu-gawa, 

 the Sciadopitys is not regarded as a garden plant in Japan, and is not 

 often seen in old gardens, but usually in the neighbourhood of temples. 



Wherever rhododendrons thrive, this fine Conifer may be planted, as 



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