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Several trees were planted in the Woburn evergreen plantation in 1743, which 

 have now formed very magnificent specimens ; one is 84 ft. high, with a trunk 

 14 ft. 3 in. in circumference at 3 ft. from the ground. Several are above 80 ft. 

 high, with branches extending 50 ft. on each side of the trunk. We may ob- 

 serve here, that an interesting account of this evergreen plantation will be 

 found in Mr. Repton's works. See our octavo edition. 



Cedrus Deodara, Pin. Wob. pi. 48. and 49., Arb. Brit. p. 2428., Hort. 

 Lig. p. 1 24. The specimen of this tree in the pinetum at Woburn was 9 ft. 

 high in 1838. 



Araucdria excelsa, Pin. Wob. pi. 50. and 51., Arb. Brit. p. 2440., Hort. 

 Lig. p. 124. 



Araucdria Cunninghami, Pin. Wob. pi. 52., Arb. Brit. p. 2443., Hort. Lig. 

 p. 124. The finest specimen which Mr. Forbes has seen was in the Jardin 

 des Plantes, where, in 1835, it was 10 ft. high, clothed with branches from the 

 base to the summit. 



Araucdria brasilidna, Pin. Wob. pi. 53. and 54., Arb. Brit. p. 2439., Hort. 

 Lig. p. 124. 



Araucdria imbricdta, Pin. Wob. pi. 55. and 56., Arb. Brit. p. 2432., Hort. 

 Lig. p. 124. The plant at Woburn was raised from seeds brought from South 

 America, by Lord Edward Russell, in the spring of 1838. 



CunninghdvnsL sinensis, Pin. Wob. pi. 57., Arb. Brit. p. 2445., Hort. Lig. 

 p. 124. The plant at Woburn, during the severity of the frost in 1337-8, 

 was only protected with a few laurel branches placed around it, by which it 

 was effectually preserved. 



Dammara orientals, Pin. Wob. pi. 58., Arb. Brit. p. 2447., Hort. Lig. p. 124. 



Dammara austrdlis, Pin. Wob. pi. 59., Arb. Brit. p. 2448., Hort. Lig. p. 124. 

 The finest specimen which Mr. Forbes has seen is one in the conservatory of 

 His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick. 



Taxodium distichum, Pin. Wob. pi. 60., Arb. Brit. p. 2481., Hort. Lig. p. 126. 



Taxodium sinense, Pin. Wob. p. 179., Arb. Brit. p. 2481., Hort. Lig. p. 126. 



Taxodium sinense y pendulum, Pin. Wob. p. 180., Arb. Brit. p. 2481., Hort. 

 Lig. p. 126. A fine specimen exists in Mr. Knight's nursery, Chelsea. 



Cupressus sempervirens, Pin. Wob. p. 181., Arb. Brit. p. 2464., Hort. Lig. 

 p. 125. The doors of St. Peter's Church at Rome were made from the wood 

 of this tree, which are said to have lasted 1,100 years. It was also much used 

 by the Egyptians, for the manufacture of their mummy cases. 



Cupressus sempervirens y stricta, Pin. Wob. p. 183., Arb. Brit. p. 2465., 

 Hort. Lig. p. 125. 



Cupresstis thyoides, Pin. Wob. p. 183., Arb. Brit. p. 2475., Hort. Lig. p. 125. 



Cupressus horizontdlis, Pin. Wob. pi. 61., Arb. Brit. p. 2465., Hort Lig. 

 p. 125. The Duke of Bedford saw a tree of great magnitude, of this species, 

 in the Botanic Garden at Montpelier, last summer, which is said to be 700 

 years old. There is a specimen at White Knights, and another in Dr. Pen- 

 rosse's garden, at Little Brit Hill, Bucks, which is 20 ft. high. Both specimens 

 bear numerous cones. Mr. Forbes considers this a different tree from any of 

 the varieties of C. sempervirens that he is acquainted with. He says, it is 

 readily distinguished from them by its horizontal branches, and light-coloured 

 minute leaves. 



Cupressus fastigidta, Pin. Wob. p. 186. Leaves ternate, glaucous, keel- 

 shaped, somewhat subulate, decurrent at the base, obtuse at the apex. Branch- 

 lets quadrifarious, erect, rounded, of a dark brown colour. 



". In habit of growth, this plant much resembles the Cupressus sempervirens, 

 but it is readily distinguished from that species by its very blue glaucous leaves, 

 which are also more rounded and keel-shaped, as well as more distant and 

 spreading on the old wood ; they are longer, and somewhat awl-shaped, with 

 obtuse apexes, and totally different from those of the above-mentioned species. 

 It was received here from Mr. Knight, of the King's Road, Chelsea, under 

 the name of Juniperus fastigiata; but its mode of growth, and other cha- 

 racters, appear to me to be that of the cypress, and not the juniper." 



