Cupressus macrocarpa, var. lutea 
Garden variety. 
Nat. Order : CoNnIFERA. Tribe : CuPRESSINEA, 
Cupressus macrocarpa, var. lutea, Hort, and Veitch, Manual, 
ed. i, 215, 
A yellow variety of the Monterey cypress, which is most 
striking and effective in a garden from its very bright colour. 
It was sent out about eight or nine years ago, and has now 
reached a height of twenty-one feet. The habit of the tree 
here as yet is strictly fastigiate, it rises in a thin column and 
takes up but little room on the grass. It is absolutely 
necessary to plant it in a very sheltered situation, as it has 
but a shallow root hold, and from its rapid growth is so top 
heavy that if exposed to high winds it is very liable to be 
blown over, which has occurred twice here already. It is next 
to impossible to replant it, as the roots are certain to be 
broken. In moderately rich loam and peat it makes quite two 
feet here every year. I have not found it to change its colour 
to the type again, all my plants being a brilliant yellow, and 
they appear to me to be likely to remain so; it strikes easily 
from cuttings. 
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