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when it can be had. It may be sown in deep seed-pans, 

 or in the shady border, but the former are preferable. 

 Use good soil as for the cuttings, have good drainage, 

 and cover the seed 2 inches with soil. Treat them as 

 for Pinus, &c. Set the pans out of doors in a shady 

 place for the summer, and remove them to a more sunny 

 situation for the winter season. 



The Cryptomeria (Coniferce). 



This small genus contains very beautiful pendulous 

 evergreen Juniper-like trees. Japonica is a handsome 

 shrub, growing similar to the Hemlock Spruce, but will 

 grow higher, and forms a noble pendulous tree, when 

 it can be favoured with room and a damp situation. It 

 may be raised from seed, by sowing it in deep seed-pans 

 in the month of April, and treated as for the Cupressus, 

 Pinus, &c. 



The Taxodium {Coniferce). 



The Taxodium, or deciduous Cypress, is among our 

 best medium park and lawn trees. It is of a peculiar 

 light green foliage during the summer, and looks con- 

 spicuous on a good large lawn among other deeper 

 green objects. Here is a group fit for a small park or a 

 large lawn : — A Cedar of Lebanon, a Cedrus deodara, a 

 Pinus Wellingtonia, a Pinus insignis, a deciduous Cypress, 

 a Cupressus se?nperviren$, a Cupressus macrocarpa, a 

 Pinus imbricata, a Thuja occidentals, a Cryptomeria 

 Japonica, a Taxus fastigiata, a Juniperus pendula, an 

 Abies Canadensis, an Abies Smitkiana, a Chamcecy parts 

 sphceroidea (White Cedar), and a Garrya elliptica, a 

 clean standard Scotch Laburnum, ditto Scarlet Thorn, 

 ditto Copper Beech, a clean standard Pyrus Japonica, 

 ditto Pyrus Jloribunda (white), and a bed or two of 

 Juniperus sabina, and ditto Variegata. These well 

 planted on a clean lawn, at a good distance apart, will 

 have a general effect not often met with, and will prove 

 as lasting as a decade of generations. 



