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upright growth, so different to the spreading English type, is also 

 well known, and this too has a golden counterpart which also has 

 to be grafted. There are probably a couple of dozen varieties of 

 yews in commerce, but the above two types are far better known 

 and more widely planted than the whole of the others. 



THUJA (ARBOR ViT-ffi) 



We have already made reference to T. lobbi as being our favourite 

 hedge plant, and now we are to consider it as an ornamental shrub. 

 Equal in every respect and of similar habit to Cupressus lawsoniana, 

 it excels even that splendid plant in several ways. Its foliage 

 is more ample, its growth is, possibly, more rapid, and, on the whole, 

 it is a better doer. From the wide spread of its feathered branches 

 which sweep the ground right up to its thread-like slender head, a 

 well-grown specimen is all a conifer should be, symmetrical, dense, 

 majestic. That is T. lobbi. There are many varieties but none like 

 this. The American Arbor Vita? (T. occidentalis), a very hardy 

 shrub, is not, in our estimation, nearly as good, though this too forms 

 a good hedge when planted for that purpose. T. aurea and T. 

 elegantissima are golden forms much more approximating in form 

 to that of cupressus L. erecta viridis, except that they do not so run 

 up to a point ; but both these forms have to be grafted on the 

 lobbi, for we have never satisfactorily dealt with them as cuttings. 

 T. vervceneana is of more slender growth and has proved itself good 

 in its place, and T. gigantea, semper aurescens, in a collection is very 

 desirable, but beyond these all the other varieties belong more to 

 the general nursery than to that which specializes in market work. 

 Except the golden varieties, propagation is by cuttings, but the 

 types lobbi and occidentalis can be raised from seed in the usual 

 way. 



THUJAOPSIS 



There are only two thujaopsis worthy of note here, and they are 

 so exactly the opposite the one to the other that no one who did not 

 know them would deem them related : they are T. borealts and T. 

 dolobrata. The latter is more like a woody lycopod or a prehistoric 

 forest plant compared with most other conifers. It seldom makes 

 a good specimen, though we have seen such when grown under 



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