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the Scotch Pine. The last is extensively planted owing 

 to its great hardiness and suitability for bleak positions ; 

 but it is not good enough for a small garden ; its varieties 

 argentea, aurea and nana may be noted. 



Prumnopitys elegans, the Chilian Plum-fruited Yew ; 

 Pseudolarix Kaempferi, the Chinese Golden Larch-; and 

 Sciadopitys verticillata, the Japanese Umbrella Pine, 

 are three interesting kinds which might be added to a 

 large collection. The last is a singular plant, the phylloid 

 shoots of which, serving as leaves, radiate like the ribs of 

 an umbrella. 



For Retinospora see remarks under Cupressus. 



The most ornamental of the Sequoias (syn. Welling- 

 tonia) is of course gigantea. S. sempervirens is the 

 Californian Redwood ; there is a white-tipped variety 

 of it called alba spica. 



The deciduous Cypress, Taxodium distichum, is re- 

 markable for the brown colouring in the fall. It thrives 

 in moist places. There is a pendulous variety of it. 



The Yews (Taxus) vary greatly as forms of one species, 

 baccata. One sees at large shows such varieties as 

 adpressa, a. stricta, Dovastoni (weeping), and its golden 

 form D. aurea, elegantissima, fastigiata (the Irish 

 Florence Court Yew) ; and fructu-luteo, the Golden- 

 fruited Yew. 



The Thujas are best known in the form of the Western 

 or American Arbor Vitae, T. occidentalis ; and the 

 Eastern or Chinese Arbor Vitae, T. orientalis ; but 

 gigantea (syn. Lobbii) and dolabrata are much grown ; 

 the last makes a good lawn tree, and has several varieties, 

 such as nana and variegata. There are golden and 

 pyramidal forms of gigantea. Elegantissima, with 

 golden foliage ; Elwangeriana, E. aurea and Hoveyi 

 are good forms of the American Arbor Vitae. Aurea is a 



