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used for candied orange-peel and marmalade; produced all the yea 
round. Furnishes one of the best stocks for orange grafting. 
CYPRESS (Cupressus macrocarpa, Hartweg, and C. Lambertiana, 
Gordon).—California; grows in the granite, as well as sandstone 
formation, sometimes in Sphagnum-moors. A beautiful and shady 
tree, attaining to a height of 150ft., with a stem of 9ft. in circum- 
ference; it is one of the quickest growing of all conifers, even in 
poor dry soils; does well also on limestone soil, and is one of the 
best shelter-trees on sea-sands, naturally following the ecoast-line, 
never extending many miles from the shore in temperate localities. 
Not to be planted in places where stagnant humidity exists under- 
ground, nor where the soil is but little penetrable. Not a long- 
lived tree. 
Fie (Ficus carica, Linné), Syria and Persian Gulf—The most 
useful and at the same time most hardy of half a thousand 
recorded species of Ficus. The extreme facility with which it can 
be propagated from cuttings, the resistance to heat, the compara- 
tively early yield and easy culture recommends the Fig-tree, where 
it is an object to raise masses of tree-vegetation in widely treeless 
lands of the warmer zones for shade and fruit. Has a high reputa- 
tion as a drought-resisting tree. Can be grown even on sand lands. 
Two main varieties may be distinguished: that which produces three 
crops a year, and that which yields but one. The first crop of figs 
grows on wood of the preceding year; the last crop, however, on 
wood of the current year. 
THe “Loquat” (Photinia eriobotrya, J. Hooker, P. Japonica, 
Franchet and Savatier), a beautiful ornamental and quick-growing 
evergreen shrub from China and Japan, easily raised from seed, or 
superior varieties can be grafted not only on its own ‘stock, but 
also on the white thorn, or better still on the quince. Bears 
copiously on moist places. In Australia flowers during mid-winter. 
The flowers of this beautiful shrub are also very fragrant, and its 
fruits are about the first to ripen, about August and September. 
CamPHor TREE (Cinnamomum camphora), China and Japan. 
—The trees are very attractive for their neat, fragrant foliage. 
Endures a slight frost. The wood, like all other parts of the tree, 
is pervaded with camphor, hence resists the attacks of insects. 
Mutperry.—The White Mulberry (Morus alba, Linné), upper 
India and Western China. Provides the food for the Chinese silk- 
worm (Bombyx Mori). One pound of silk may be produced—so 
far as the food of the Bombyx is concerned—from thirty pounds 
of mulberry leaves or from a single tree. Grows easily from cut- 
tings or from well matured seeds. It is usually unisexual, and 
‘attains a very large size. Spots for mulberry culture must not be 
over moist when the leaves are to be utilised for the Bombyx. For 
sericulture purposes the trees are planted 10ft. x 10ft., and, kept 
at bush size, make good hedges or copses. 
