506 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



and spreading in every direction with a marvellous profusion 

 into a perfect circle. It is unquestionably hardy all over the 

 colder portion, at least, of the United States. 



Pseudo-larix koemferi. GOLDEN OR CHINESE LARCH. 



This properly belongs to the deciduous class of trees ; though 



when first sent to England by Mr. Fortune, 



Syn- it was supposed to be a fir, and Mr. Lambert 



Abies koemferi. . .-., . T . .,, 



p inug do classed it among the pines. It is still very 



rare and very expensive ; plants only two 

 inches high costing seven dollars in England. We know of but 

 one other specimen in this country, besides our own, which was 

 too small to venture out this winter, though we intend doing so 

 next. It will, no doubt, prove hardy, coming as it does from 

 the northern provinces of China. The leaves are a beautiful 

 bright green, when young, but before autumn assume a fine 

 golden yellow. There being no specimens in England over a 

 foot high, we have no further description of this tree. 



Libocedrus. INCENSE CEDAR. 



This exquisite genus (for all the varieties are alike beautiful) 

 is another of Mr. Endlicher's introductions from Chili and New 

 Zealand. The name is derived from libanos, incense, and 

 cedrus, the cedar. It is found upon the Andes of Chili, where 

 it grows to the height of sixty to eighty feet, and bears so close 

 a resemblance to the arbor vitse, as, by many, to be classed with 

 this tree, having the same pyramidal habit, thickly clothed with 

 beautifully delicate, glaucous and light green imbricated leaves 

 from its very base. 



There are but four varieties, three of which have been im- 

 ported, by collectors of evergreens, into this country, viz. : 

 Chiliensis, Doniana and decurrens, of which the first and last 

 only approach to some hope of being acclimatized. 



L. Chilunsis, we have had several years. Our oldest plant 

 survived three winters on an open lawn, protected simply by 



