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Betinospora pisifera aurea,Fortune. Golden Pea-fruited Cypress. 

 A garden variety. We have a good specimen twelve yer s 

 old, three feet high, bearing good color and health. Wh<. ^ 

 first introduced its hardiness was considered doubtful. This 

 is a very attractive' shrubby cypress. Its yellow top is truly 

 beautiful. It has grown but little each year, which is prob- 

 ably due to a heavy soil. 



Betinospora squarrosa, Siebold. Habitat, Japan. In h. 5 book 

 on Evergreens, Josiah Hoopes supposes this to be too tender 

 for our climate. Several trees on our campus have done very 

 well for the last ten years, being now ten feet high. This 

 Retinospora does not resemble the preceding, having more 

 of the appearance of a young Red Cedar. The leaves are one- 

 fourth inch long, spreading light glaucous green. The 

 branches are open, and yet the tree has a habit of dying out 

 in the center. This is less desirable than the other forms of 

 Retinosporas, although a good effect is obtained in the unusual 

 color of the foliage maintained all the year round. 



Salisburia adiantifolia, Smith. Maiden-Hair Tree. Habitat, 

 China and Japan. Scarcely recognized as a conifer, having 

 very broad fan-shaped deciduous leaves, resembling the pinnae 

 of a maiden-hair fern. It is known also as the Ginko tree. 

 Tree is a rapid grower and seems quite hardy in this region. 

 Fruiting trees are to be found in various parts of this state. 

 The form of the tree is like that of a pear tree. Always at- 

 tractive, should be planted in choice locations. 



Sciadopytis verticillata, Siebold. Umbrella Pine. Habitat, Ja- 

 pan. A new and rare form of conifer recently brought into 

 cultivation. The leaves are broad needles about three inches 

 long arranged at the ends of branches in a whorl radiating like 

 the ribs of an extended umbrella. The foliage turns only 

 slightly brown in winter, and the plant seems quite hardy for 

 Pennsylvania. When variety or rarity is sought, this ever- 

 green should be chosen. 



Taxodium distichum, Bich. Bald Cypress. Habitat, Southern 

 States. This is a deciduous conifer, with bright green leaves 

 in summer, arranged in two directions, distichous. In moist 

 locations it soon becomes a tree, and grows rapidly upward. 

 It is exceedingly ornamental and deserving of a place on the 

 lawn. 



