Cupressus 1 1 99 



At Shadwell Court, near Thetford, Henry measured a tree 58 ft. by 3 ft. 8 in., 

 growing on poor sandy soil which contains lime. 



In all parts of Scotland where I have seen it, especially in the west, this species 

 grows well, and should be valuable, not only for ornament, but also for planting in 

 rocky and exposed situations, though so far as we know it has not yet been planted 

 under forest conditions. The largest that I have measured is a very healthy 

 tree in the Dolphin Walk at Murthly, which, in 1906, was 45 ft. by 3 ft.^ At Pol- 

 talloch, in the same year, I measured one of 42 ft. by ^^ ft. 



In Ireland we have seen fine trees at many places, the largest perhaps at 

 Woodstock, about 55 ft., the average rate of growth being about one foot per 

 annum, though at Powerscourt it was 40 ft. high twenty-four years after being 

 planted. Everywhere it seems to grow as well as in England, and to be worth 

 planting more extensively. 



In France and Germany the climate does not seem to suit it so well as in 

 Great Britain, and we have seen no specimens of remarkable size. But a tree is 

 reported ^ to be growing in the grounds of the Villa Lindenhof, at Lindau, on the 

 Lake of Constance, which was no less than 30 metres high, though I suspect this 

 to be a misprint, for I have found no other records at all approaching this. Pardd* 

 states that it has produced natural seedlings at Auteuil (Oise), and that the 

 plantations of it which he saw at Weinheim, in Baden, are superb. In Norway, 

 Schiibeler says, it is hardy as far north as Trondhjem, and grows well at Christiania 

 and Stockholm. 



Timber 



Of all the coniferous trees of North America, none has better wood than this, 

 though it is little known even in its own country, on account of the difficulty 'of 

 getting it in commercial sizes from the comparatively inaccessible places where it 

 grows. Hough says that for cabinet-making it has few if any equals among North 

 American woods, and that it has been exported to China in considerable quantities 

 where it is used as a substitute for satin-wood. Though its lustre does not equal 

 that of satin-wood, yet the section in Hough's book which was cut from a tree 

 growing on Mt. Hood, Oregon, shows a remarkable density and slowness of growth. 

 Hough counted 427 rings in a radius of 9^ in. only; and I have never seen any 

 coniferous wood so compact, or in which the rings are so hard to distinguish. 



Ordinary commercial boards of much inferior quality to this were quoted in 

 1904 at Victoria, B.C., at 60 dollars per 1000 ft., or more than double the price 

 of the finest Oregon fir or red cedar ; and though, owing to this high price, it is 

 little used except in the best houses, yet the work done with it in the house of 

 the Hon. James Dunsmuir, Lieut.-Governor of British Columbia, proved to me that 

 it was a wood which, if it could be procured in this country, would take a high rank 

 among fancy woods for furniture, cabinet-making, and panelling. 



' la/oum. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 533 (1892) a tree was reported here as 50 ft. by I ft. 9 inches, but this I could not 

 find, and suspect a misprint. Another at Brahau Castle was said {pp. cit. 541) to have been then 45 ft. by 6 ft. 8 in., 

 which also seems doubtful. 



2 Mitt, detit. dendr. Ges. 1905. p. 32- ' ^'■*- ^'^- *' ^''"'"' 39 (1906). 



