CUP 



CUP 



the evergreen and deciduous ornamental tree 

 kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Monoccia 

 Monadelphiu, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Conifcrte. 



The characters arc : that the male flowers are 

 disposed in an ovate anient: the calyx common 

 anient, ovate, composed of scattered flowers ; 

 consisting of single-flowered scales, roundish, 

 acuminate on their fore-part, peltate, opposite, 

 about twenty in number: there is no corolla : 

 the stamina have no filaments ; the office of 

 them is borne by the calycine scale, to which on 

 the lower part grow four anthers : the female 

 flowers are heaped into a roundish cone on the 

 same plant : the calyx is a common strobile, 

 roundish, composed of from eight to ten florets, 

 consisting of single-flowered scales, which are 

 opposite, ovate, convex beneath, gaping: there 

 is no corolla: the pistillum is a germ scarcely 

 evident : numerous points appear within each 

 calycine scale ; supposed germs without styles, 

 each with a simple stigma ; subtruncate, con- 

 cave at the tip : there is no pericarpium : stro- 

 bile globose, shut, gaping with orbiculate scales, 

 which are angular and peltate beneath : the seeds 

 several, oblong, angular, subulate, small. 



The species are : 1 . C. sempervireils, Ever- 

 green Cypress ; 2. C. disticha, Deciduous Cy- 

 press Tree ; 3. C. thyoides, White Cedar, or 

 Arbor Vitre-lcaved Cypress; 4. C.pendula, Por- 

 tugal Cypress. 



"The first has an upright stem, rising to the 

 height of fifteen or twenty feet, with many round 

 branches, either growing upright, or spreading 

 abroad ; strigose and toothed with the rudiments 

 of leaves: the fronds are dichotomous, subqua- 

 drangular; leaflets alternately opposite, decurrent, 

 subcarinate,the olderonesdistantand mucronate, 

 the younger closely imbricate: the fruit globular 

 or somewhat ovate, on the sides, or at the ends of 

 the branches ; when unripe of a dark green co- 

 lour. It is a native of the Levant, fkc. 



Tt has been distinguished into the upright, 

 and horizontal or spreading kind. 



The second species rises with a large erect 

 stem or trunk to the height of fifty or sixty 

 feet in its native situation, sending out regular 

 branches to a great distance. The leaves are 

 small, spreading, and deciduous, placed in a disti- 

 chous manner, oralong two sides of the branches. 



The third grows to a considerable size in its 

 native situation ; but in this climate seldom rises 

 much higher than fifteen feet : when raised from 

 cuttings, it has rather the appearance of a shrub, 

 and is not above nine or ten feethigh: the branches 

 are numerous, and stand two ways; the tree na- 

 turally forms itself into a regular head : the leaves 



are evergreen, flat, sharp, very *hort, hnbficated, 

 and resemble those of the Arbor Yitae, being 

 small, and of a browner green than in the Com- 

 mon Cypress : the fruit is a blue cone ho larger 

 than the berry of the Juniper. It is a native of 

 North America. 



The fourth is a small tree, having a olaucous 

 appearance, with the branches spreading irregu- 

 larly, and bending downwards : the leaves are 

 glandulose, spiral, and imbricate: the flowers 

 like those of the first species. 



In Portugal it grows to a large timber tree, but 

 is here seldom above fifteen feet high. It grows 

 naturally at Goa. 



Culture. — These plants, in all the sorts, may 

 be raised either from seeds or by cuttings of the 

 young shoots; but those procured from seeds 

 arc by much the best plants. 



In the first method, the seed, being provided 

 and obtained from the cones, by exposing them 

 to a moderate degree of heat, should be sown 

 towards the latter end of March, or beginning 

 of the following month, on a warm bed or bor- 

 der where the soil is rather light and mellow, 

 and has been rendered fine by being well dug 

 over, covering it in to the depth of about half an 

 inch. When the season proves drv, slight wa- 

 terings should be occasionally given, and du- 

 ring the summer the plants be kept free from 

 weeds, and be watered a little when the weather 

 is hot. In the winter time they should be pro- 

 tected from frosts by mats or other contrivances. 

 They must be continued under this management 

 till they have attained two years' growth, when 

 they may be removed in the beginning of 

 the spring, and planted in nursery rows in a 

 warm situation, at the distance of eighteen 

 inches or two feet, and eight inches or a foot 

 apart. When they have had three or four years 

 growth in these rows they will be in proper 

 condition for being finally set out where they are 

 to remain. The best time for performing this 

 business is in the beginning of spring. 



They may, however, be raised in a more ex- 

 peditious manner, by sowing the seeds in pots 

 or tubs of light earth, and plunging them in a 

 moderate hot-bed, as in this way they will be 

 fit for removing into nursery rows in the course 

 of twelve months. 



As seed of this sort is slow in vegetating, 

 this last method is the most proper for it, as 

 shade may be more conveniently provided du- 

 ring the summer months, and protection in a 

 sunny exposure in the winter; and when the 

 plants do Tiot appear in the course of the first 

 year, the aid of a hot-bed may be conveniently 

 had in the following spring, by which they 

 will be brought forward with expedition to 



