Demesnes, &c. 107 



Peculiar foliage of some kinds of what are called 

 the Arbor vitse family invite the planter's atten- 

 tion. The Incense Cedar, Librocedrw, or Thuja 

 doniana, Don's Arbor vite (which, like many other 

 plants, has synonyms), is sufficiently attractive to 

 make it worthy of the care it requires in choice of 

 situation, for it is only in favoured places it stands 

 our climate. Forests along the Hokianga, near the 

 Bay of Islands in the Northern Island of New Zea- 

 land, are its native home, where its height is from 

 thirty to about seventy feet. In Ireland I have seen 

 plants in the county of Wicklow and elsewhere look- 

 ing healthy, but none as yet larger than a small 

 shrub. 



L. Dolobrata, the hatchet-leaved, which, a native of 

 Japan, is very handsome, and attains a height of 

 about fifty feet. 



L. Chilensis is a beautiful tree from the Chilean 

 Andes, where it reaches a height of seventy feet. 



Species or varieties called Biota, or the Tree of 

 Life, some of which we see as oval or roundish 

 shrubs, from one to a few feet high, and with golden 

 foliage at certain seasons, are deservedly grown, and 

 are hardy in this country. 



Raxopitys Ounninghamii, Cunningham's racem- 

 flowered Pine, from China, somewhat resembling 

 Araucarias, but much less majestic, grows well in 

 some warm shady situations with sweet sandy loam. 

 The best specimen, I know, of what I believe is this 

 Pine, I observed at Shane's Castle. 



