S6 HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES. 



flower garden at Penrhyn Castle, North Wales, and has 

 attained to the noble height of nearly 50 feet. At Clare- 

 mont, in Surrey, I have also seen a well-developed specimen. 

 The timber is clean, firm, and of a desirable mahogany 

 colour, and polishes nicely.^ Sandy loam, with a free ad- 

 mixture of decayed vegetable matter, suits the Cunninghamia 

 well. 



OUPRESSUS (Linn^us) 



{Including Retinispora and ChamcRcy parts). 



THE CYPRESSES. 



Flowers monoecious ; males spiked, cylindrical ; females 

 rounded. 



Cones woody, globular, or oblong, and with numerous seeds 

 to each scale. They vary from \ to nearly 2 inches in 

 diameter. 



Scales peltate, from six to ten, terminating in a more or less 

 curved point. 



Seeds numerous, winged, inserted on the upper interior sur- 

 face of the scales. 



Cotyledons leafy, mostly in twos. 



Leaves scale-like, closely imbricated, never in two ranks, 

 but generally four-rowed. 



Branches irregularly arranged along the stem. 



Buds not scaly. 



After a careful and lengthened study of the genera Retini- 

 spora and Chamcecyparis, under almost every phase of cultiva- 

 tion in this country, I have here included both under Cupres- 

 sus, the general habit, foliage, and fruit clearly pointing out 

 that they have no claim to separate generic positions, and are 

 more nearly allied to this than any other genus. 



1 At the Surveyors' Institution, London, a large slab of home-grown timber of 

 the Cunninghamia, which I sent there in 1S95, shows well the quality and 

 graining of the wood. 



