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Cultivation, etc. It is a very rapid-growing tree when 

 young ; and trees which have been planted out 10 years are 

 often 20 to 30 feet high. 



Seedlings grow rapidly, and are often 2 feet 6 inches to 

 3 feet high at the end of the second summer. 



The tree will bear a great amount of shade ; and a close 

 canopy is necessary, in order to suppress and kill off the side 

 branches. The foliage is very dense. 



It is admirably suited for underplanting or undersowing. 



It may be grown as even-aged high forest, either as a 

 pure crop, or else mixed by patches. 



Mixtures by alternate trees or rows of trees would, how- 

 ever, succeed in the case of: 



Cupressus and Douglas Fir. 



Cupressus and Sitka Spruce. 



Cupressus and Thuya gigantea. 



On suitable localities the tree could also be grown under 

 the selection or group systems. 



Any planting of this tree must be looked upon as an 

 experiment ; but if its timber were saleable at 6d. to 8d. a 

 cubic foot, it would be one of the most profitable trees that 

 could be grown, coming near to Douglas Fir and Black 

 Poplars. 



CUPRESSUS SITCHENSIS. 



This is sometimes called the C. Nootkatensis, or the Sitka 

 Cypress or the Alaska Cypress. It is a native to the west 

 coast of North America. It is said to have been introduced 

 in 1850. 



As to Seed. One pound of seed contains about 128,000 

 seeds, and the germinative capacity is about 1 5 to 20 per 

 cent. Home-grown seed should prove quite satisfactory. 

 Plants raised from cuttings should never be used, if the 

 production of timber be desired. 



Cultivation, etc. This tree may be experimented with 

 and grown in the same manner as C. macrocarpa. Its timber 

 is of excellent quality, but it will not prove so remunerative 

 as C. macrocarpa^ as its growth is not nearly so rapid. 



