Cupr essus macrocarpa 
Native of California. 
Nat. Order : ConiFER#. Tribe : CUPRESSINEA. 
Cupressus macrocarpa, Hartweg in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. ii. 187 
(1847); Sargent, ‘Silva N. Amer.” x. 103, t. 525 (1896); Veitch, 
Manual, ed. ii. 215 (1900) ; C. Laméertzana, Carriére, 
“ Traité Conif.” ed. i. 124 (1855). 
Was introduced from Monterey in Upper California in the 
year 1831. It is a fine massive tree in its outline, and con- 
spicuous in a garden on account of its very deep green colour. 
It grows so fast in the first few years when planted in good 
soil that it is very liable to be blown down by storms. It 
attains a height of about seventy feet, in its old age becoming 
somewhat like the cedar of Lebanon. Mr. Veitch, in his 
admirable book on “ Conifers ” (2nd edition, 1900), says, ‘Its 
habitat is extremely restricted ; it is known to grow spon- 
taneously only on a small area south of Monterey. The trees 
occur in small groups, or solitary, in a narrow belt about two 
miles long and scarcely more than two hundred yards wide, 
extending along the coast from Cypress Point southwards to 
Carmel Bay.” The height of the tree figured is eighty feet, 
and its circumference a hundred and thirty feet. 
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