Cupressus Lawsoniana 
Native of California and Oregon. 
Nat. Order : CoNIFER&. Tribe : CupRESSINE#. 
Cupressus Lawsoniana, Murray in Eaznd. Phil. Journ. n. s. 1. 2923 
Hooker, fil., Bot. Mag. 5581 (1866); Sargent, ‘Silva N. Amer.” 
X. 119, t. 531 (1896); Veitch, Manual, ed. ii. 205 (1903); 
C. attenuata, Gordon “ Pinet,” ed. ii. 79 (1875). 
This beautiful evergreen tree has been so long known, 
and has been so extensively planted, that it is needless to 
say very much about it. Messrs. Lawson of Edinburgh 
introduced it in 1854 from North California, and I believe that 
if we might have only one conifer most people would decide 
to have this one, which is distinguished for the gracefulness of 
its habit, the beauty of its foliage, and for its absolute hardiness 
in all situations, while it will flourish in most soils, from sandy 
loam to pure peat. Plants raised from seed vary greatly both 
in colour and habit. It has been largely planted here, and 
there are many fine trees; the one figured is sixty-two feet 
high and eighty-four feet round. My friend the late Sir 
Victor Brooke, writing from California, says that “it is a 
very great tree, immensely thick, growing to perhaps two 
hundred feet in height, and the best lumber of all. I 
measured two, the trunk of one was forty-four feet in cir- 
cumference at four feet from the ground, the other sixty-six 
feet eleven inches. The stems of all the old trees are over 
thirty-five feet round.” 
