140 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Cupressus pisifera. F. v. Mueller. (Chamcecyparis pitifera, Siebold and 



Zuccarini.) 



The Savara of Japan. It attains a maximum height of over 100 

 feet. Stem occasionally 5 feet in diameter. Very hardy like the 

 foregoing, bearing the frosts of Norway quite to lat. 59 C 55' [Schue- 

 beler] ; of beautiful aspect and quick growth. There is also a 

 variety with golden-yellow foliage. Less esteemed than C. obtusa ; 

 grows in about the same localities, but is content with poorer soil, 

 and bears more heat [Dupont]. Prefers valleys for its location 

 [Prof. Luerssen]. Wood principally used by coopers. This and 

 the foregoing species were in 1871 referred to the genus Cupressus 

 in an early edition of the present work. 



Cupressus sempervirens, Linne. 



The Common Cypress. South-Europe and South- Western Asia, 

 on Mount Lebanon up to 5,000 feet. It is famous for the great age 

 it attains, and for the durability of its timber, which is next to 

 imperishable. Likes limestone-soil particularly. Doors from this 

 wood in St. Paul's Church in Rome have lasted over 600 years. 

 Its two forms namely C. pyramidalis (Targioni) and C. horizontalis 

 (Miller) widely differ under culture. The tree attains in warm 

 countries occasionally a height of 100 feet and a stem-girth of 9 

 feet. Hardy in England. Near Somma a cypress is still shown, 

 which so it is said was renowned already at Caesar's time on 

 account of its great size. The wood is prized for trunks and boxes, 

 as rendering the contents proof against most kinds of insects [Sir 

 D . Brandis 1 . At present its wood is much sought for the manufacture 

 of musical instruments. Young records the stem- circumference of 

 a Cypress at Lago Maggiore at 54 feet, and this was known even 

 600 years ago as a venerable tree, thus far one of the few most 

 favored trees in the whole creation. 



Cupressus thurifera, Humboldt, Bonpland and Kunth. 



Mexican White-Cedar ; 3,000 to 4,500 feet above sea-level. A 

 handsome pyramidal tree, upwards of 40 feet high. See C. Bentham. 



Cupressus thuy oides, Linne. (Chamcecyparis sphceroidea, Spach ; Thuya 



sphceroidalis, Cl. Kichard.) 



White Cedar of North-America ; in moist and swampy ground. 

 Height of tree reaching 80 feet ; diameter of stem 3 feet. Of com- 

 paratively quick growth; endures shade well [B. E. Fernow]. 

 The wood is reddish, light, dear, easy to split, soft and fragrant ; 

 it turns red when exposed to the air. Extensively used for a great 

 variety of purposes for boat-building, cooperage, rail way- ties, 

 particularly also shingles ; it is fine-grained and easily worked. 

 Mohr says, that the wood, when well seasoned, offers the finest 

 material for hollow-ware. For furniture, it admits of a high finish 

 and has a pleasing hue. The old wood resists the successions of 

 dryness and moisture better than any other American Cypress 

 hitherto tried. Circumferential rate of stem-growth in Nebraska 

 22 inches at 2 feet from the ground in 12 years [Furnas]. 



