Cupressus 1167 



Mr. Jepson writes to me that these islands are barren rocks without any woody 

 vegetation. The specimens ascribed to this variety appear to be a form with 

 glaucous foliage, which arose as a sport in the California University garden, and is 

 unknown in cultivation in England. 



Distribution 



This tree has a very restricted range ^ in the wild state, as it only occurs near 

 Monterey in California, and on the island of Guadalupe, off the coast of Lower 

 California. At Monterey, the main grove occupies an area along the sea-coast 

 about two miles long and 200 yards wide, from Cypress Point to the shores of Carmel 

 Bay. A smaller grove occurs on Point Lobos, the southern boundary of the bay. In 

 this narrow area, which extends from the sea-cliffs inland to where the cypress begins 

 to mingle with Pinus radiata, the trees are of different ages and appearance. When 

 young and crowded, they have tall stems and narrow pyramidal crowns; older 

 trees tend to stand wide apart and have flattened crowns, with far-spreading and 

 gnarled stout branches. Plate 295 shows how different is the appearance of mature 

 trees at Monterey from the young specimens which we see in this country. 



Many of the trees at Monterey ^ are exposed to constant strong winds from the 

 sea, which often prevent the development of branches on the windward side of the 

 trunk, and cause many of the stems to lie almost prostrate on the ground. Near 

 Monterey this cypress, in conjunction with Pinus radiata, is planted on the sand- 

 dunes down to the margin of the breakers, so that the trees are often bathed in salt 

 water, thrown up by large waves at high tide. Frost is almost unknown at Monterey,* 

 yet C. macrocarpa is cultivated on the Pacific coast, as far north as Oregon and 

 Washington, where the winters are cold ; and Mayr states that it thrives at Tokyo, 

 where the thermometer often falls to 14° Fahr. 



On the island of Guadalupe, this cypress is almost confined to the high central 

 plateau, where it covers an area of two or three square miles. It is said by Dr. 

 Franceschi * to be very variable both in habit and in the size, shape, and colour of 

 the cones. (A. H.) 



Cultivation 



This species ^ was cultivated in the Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick 

 in 1838, from seeds of unknown origin presented by Lambert. Two or three years 



* Cf. Sargent, in Garden and Forest, vii. 241, fig. 41 (1894), where the trees at Cypress Point are described and figured. 

 Two photographs of the Monterey grove are also reproduced in Gard. Chron. xxii. 52, figs. 17, 18 (1897). Cf. also The 

 Garden, xxx. 189, cum fig. (1886). 



2 Hickman, in Erythea, iv. 195 (1896), describes a miniature forest of this species at Monterey, consisting of trees 

 scarcely a foot in height, yet bearing clusters of ripe fruit. In all probability these trees are C. Goveniana. 

 ^ The climate at Monterey is described in our article on Pinus radiata, p. 1081. 



* Zoe, iv. 138 (1893). 



* Cf. Gordon, in Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. 296 (1849), and A. Murray, in Garden, i. 330 (1872). The date is wrongly 

 given as 1831 by Kent, in Veitch's Manual. 



