CONIFEROUS TREES 



shrub with more slender branches, more divided than the type, and smaller 

 leaves of a brighter green. 



THUIA GIGANTEA, Nutt. 



Syns. T. Loblii, Hort. 



Nicholson in Woods and Forests, 1884, p. 190, with fig. ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 239, 



fig. 72, and full-page illus. 



Thuia gigantea was known prior to 1807, in which year James Don 

 mentions it in Hortus Cambridgiensis under T. plicata. It again 

 appeared under the same name in Lambert's Genus Pinus, published in 

 1828, and in 1834 as T. gigantea in Michaux' work on North American 

 Trees, in a description by Thomas Nuttall. David Douglas, when 

 travelling for the Horticultural Society of London, 1825-1827, named 

 it T. Menziesii, after his countryman, and later, the tree received the 

 name of T. excelsa from Borgord, who described it from specimens 

 collected by Mertens on the island of Sitka. 



From the first consignment of seed received at Exeter in 1853, plants 

 were distributed under the name of T. Lobbii, Hort. 



TOKEEYA CALIFOENICA, Torr. 



Syns. T. Myristica, Hook. 



Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 519 ; id. 1884, vol. xxii. p. 681, fig. 116 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4780 ; 

 PI. des Serres, torn. ix. p. 175 ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 117. 



A native of the elevated regions in the Sierra Nevada, California, by 

 William Lobb rediscovered, and seed and specimens sent in 1851. 



The credit of the first information is to David Douglas, who met with 

 specimens while travelling for the Horticultural Society of London, but 

 he failed at introduction. One of the best may be seen at Tortworth 

 Court, Gloucestershire. 



TSUGA DIVEESIFOLIA, Maxim. 



Syns. Abies Tsuga, Sieb. & Zucc. 

 Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 23 ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 467. 



Eaised from cones from Japan by the late John Gould Veitch in 1861, 

 unfortunately mixed with those of Tsuga Sieboldii, and both species 

 were cultivated under the names of Abies Tsuga and A. T. nana. The 

 introducer, unknown to himself, was the discoverer. 



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