io8 Demesnes, &e. 



Some other Cedars are too well known to need de- 

 scription here. C. Atlantica, C. Deodora, C. Libani, 

 Cryptomeria, C. Japonica, C. viridis, are favourite 

 trees. C. elegans has been justly described as one of 

 the most elegant of recent additions to our Conifers. 

 Lawson's Cypresses, C. macrocarpa, and C. Nut- 

 kaensis, or Thtijopsis borealis, Dacrydiuni Frank-Unit , 

 and several Junipers, J. drupacea, J. Japonica, J. 

 oblonga pendula, and J. Wittmanniana, are very hand- 

 some. 



Podocarpus is another pretty distinct variety or 

 kind of Conifer not to be forgotten, but not quite 

 hardy ; and Retinosporas or Retinisporas, some of 

 which attain a height of eighty feet in their homes 

 in Japan, are beautiful, whether as young bushes or 

 well-grown trees. And naming SaUsburia, or the 

 Maiden-hair Tree, Saxe-Gotha and Sequoias, one of 

 which is well known as WdUngtonia gigantea, and 

 another as Taxodium sempervircns, which reaches 

 nearly three hundred feet high in North- West 

 America, enough has been said to give inquirers 

 interesting employment. Sciadopytis, or the Umbrella 

 Pine, is said to be fastidious, liking loamy, sandy, 

 sweet, healthy, gravelly, porous soil. Sour soil, or 

 very dry situation, does not suit it. It likes a warm, 

 sheltered locality, neither too dry nor too moist, and 

 not exposed or over- sheltered above, also an open, 

 free substratum. It attains a height of one hundred 

 and fifty feet, and the Chinese and Japanese have it 

 dwarfed as well as large, and of variety of foliage. 



