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ters, that this species of cypress was cultivated 

 in England as early as 1683, but it is not con- 

 sidered so hardy as the common cypress, and 

 is therefore less planted ; formerly there were 

 some of these trees growing in the Bishop of 

 London's garden, at Fulham, and there was 

 a fine tree of this species in the gardens of 

 the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood, near 

 Chichester, which was killed by the frost 

 in 1740. 



The arbor vitae leaved cypress, or white 

 cedar, cupressus thyoides, is a native of North 

 America, and Peter Collinson, Esq. had the 

 honour of giving it British soil in 1736. This 

 species grows naturally in China and Cochin- 

 China; it loves a strong moist soil, and 

 abounds in the swamps of New Jersey, and 

 some parts of Pennsylvania and New York. 



" The May flower and the eglantine 

 May shade a brow less sad than mine : 

 But, lady, weave no wreath for me ; 

 Or weave it of the cypress tree." 



However applicable these lines of the Scot- 

 tish bard may be to us, we would not wil- 

 lingly sow the seeds of melancholy in any 

 person's pleasure grounds, yet we must state 

 that all the different species of cypresses are 

 raised from seeds, which, Miller tells us, should 

 be sown early in the spring on a bed of warm, 



