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feet, and is very beautiful. At Elizabethtown, it succeeds 

 when sheltered. At Flushing, the extremities of the branches 

 suffer in severe winters, and at Yorkville, near New York, 

 it is considered hardy under favorable circumstances, as also 

 at "Woodlawn," N. J., the residence of Mr. Field, where 

 there are specimens twenty-nine feet in circumference, though 

 not proportionally high. In Ohio, it is killed to the ground in 

 severe winters. This is another of those evergreens, which 

 grown in tubs, ten to fifteen feet high, and planted (plunged) 

 out in summer, would produce most agreeable effects in orna- 

 mental grounds, with no care in winter beyond removing it to 

 a cellar or cool green-house, 



C. Japonica viridis, C. Japonica lobbii, C. Japonica nana. 

 These three are only varieties of the one above described, and 

 we presume no more hardy, unless it be Lobbii, introduced 

 from the Dutch Botanic gardens at Batavia. C. nana, which 

 is a mere dwarf-bush, always seems to suffer with us more from 

 the sun in summer than the cold in winter. We have a fourth 

 variety, received from France, called Pendula, rather more 

 slender and pendulous than Japonica. 



CUNNINGHAMIA. 



Cunninghamia. A small tree, native of Japan and China, 

 named after its discoverer, Mr. Cunningham. There are but 

 two varieties, of which C. Sinensis or C. lanceolata, is the one 

 most generally cultivated in this country. In its general char- 

 acter and appearance, it resembles very much Aravcaria imbri- 

 cata, with lance-like leaves, though lighter green. With us it 

 stands generally better than the araucaria, and will make an 

 admirable substitute for this tree, if it should prove hardy. 



At Baltimore, we have seen a plant six or eight feet high, 

 and apparently quite vigorous. At Newport, it is also regarded 

 as quite hardy, and a great accession. Specimens there are 

 six feet high, and near Natchez, fifteen to eighteen feet, nearly 

 half its full size, and always untouched by winter. At Flush- 

 ing it stands about as well as the cryptomeria, and will proba- 

 bly prove about as reliable as this tree ; as yet it is compara- 

 tively new, and we have but few returns about it. 



C. glauca, the remaining variety, differs only in its leaves 

 being silvery. 



