Thuia dolabrata 
Natwwe of Japan. 
Nat. Order : ConIFERz. Tribe : CUPRESSINEZ. 
Thuta dolabrata, Linnzus, *‘ Suppl. Syst.” 420 (1781); Veitch, 
Manual, ed. ii. 237 (1900); Thujopsis dolabata, Siebold 
and Zuccarini, “ Fl. Jap.” ii. 34, tt. 119, 120 (1842). 
Was discovered by Thunberg, the Swedish botanist, in 1776, 
in Japan, but it was not much known in this country until 
1861, when seeds were sent from Japan by the late J. G. Veitch 
and Robert Fortune. It is so handsome and such a strong 
grower that there is probably no shrub more popular and more 
commonly grown now in our gardens. When young it is of a 
pyramidal form, and densely clothed with foliage of a yellowish- 
green colour from top to bottom. In Japan it attains a height 
of from forty to fifty feet. The specimen figured is twenty- 
nine feet high, with a circumference of sixty-seven feet. It is 
easily propagated from seeds or cuttings, and thrives best in 
a rich moist loam. 
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