Cupressus Lawsoniana, var. lutea 
Garden variety. 
Nat. Order: CoNnIFERA. Tribe: CuPRESSINEA. 
Cupressus Lawsoniana, var. lutea, Hort. and 
Veitch, Manual, ed. ii, 208. 
This is a yellow form, introduced about twenty years ago, or 
more. The colour of the foliage in Spring is bright golden 
yellow, changing as the growth gets mature to a slightly more 
bronzy shade. It is of a close growing pyramidal habit, and 
grows fairly fast; it may be planted in the most wind-swept 
positions without injury, and it will grow in almost any sort of 
soil. In fact it seems to me to be one of the very best yellow 
conifers we have, and from itsclose upright habit it takes up 
comparatively but little room. It has all the good qualities of 
the type, in addition to its own fine colour. The largest plants 
in the garden here are a little over twenty-one feet high, and 
thirty feet round at the ground. They have been planted 
twenty years, so that they make a fair rate of growth annually. 
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