. No. 844. 
THUJA ARTICULATA. 
Class. Order, 
MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 
A native of the mountains of Barbary, 
where, according to Desfontaine's Fl. Atlan- 
tica, it grows to a small tree in rich soil, 
but in arid land is merely a dwarf shrub. 
It produces the Gum Sandarack. 
With us itis elegant in growth and ap- 
pearance, and requires the greenhouse pro- 
tection. 
It may be increased by seeds, or by inarch- 
ing upon any of the other species of Thuja. 
The season of its flowering is January and 
February, at which time the seeds of the 
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