230 AMERICAN HANDBOOK 



An evergreen essential in all collections. 

 It is handsomer than the Chinese kind, though 

 not so generally cultivated. When young, it 

 has a rather slender appearance, but, on be- 

 coming older, branches out into a head very 

 similar to the red cedar. The finest Bar tram 

 specimen is about fifty-two feet high and 

 three feet ten inches in circumference. It is 

 raised from seed sown in the fall or spring 

 in boxes of light, sandy soil, kept cool and 

 moderately moist till they appear. If 'sown 

 thinly, they are best left two years in the seed 

 bed, and then removed to nursery rows one 

 foot apart. A cool, rather moist soil, on a 

 dry bottom, seems best adapted for it, but it 

 will do well in any soil not too Wet or too stiff. 



2. T. ORIENTALIS, LinncBus. Cones ellip- 

 tic, scales mucronate beneath the fleshy apex. 

 Branches ascending, branchlets mostly verti- 

 cal. Chinese arbor vite. 



When young, this is handsomer than the 

 last, but can bear no comparison with it when 

 it becomes old. The best Bartram specimen is 

 about twenty -five feet high and three feet in 

 circumference. It is propagated as the last, 

 and also by cuttings of the well ripened wood 



