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known tree, the heart wood of reddish color and very durable. 

 It is largely employed for cabinet work, pencils, fence posts, 

 etc. A very widely distributed species, extending from New 

 Brunswick to Washington Territory, and southward, in the 

 East to Florida, but is said not to have been found in CaJifomia, 

 and is rare in the Rocky Mountains. An exceedingly variable 

 species, sometimes a tree sixty to eighty feet high, but the most 

 usual size in the Eastern States is between thirty and forty. I 

 consider this the most valuable of all the Junipers, adapted to 

 the chmate of the United States, and should take precedence of 

 others for planting in forests or for other useful purposes. 



There is a large number of foreign species that thrive in this 

 country, and especially those inhabiting China and Japan, and 

 while they are of interest to the botanist, and are desirable for 

 ornamental plantations, they possess no valuable economic 

 properties not common' to our indigenous species. 



CUPKESSUS, Tour. — Cypress. 



A genus of evergreen trees closely allied to the Junipers, but 

 with monoecious flowers, with the aments or catkins termiual, 

 and of a few pairs of opposite scales. The fertile catkins erect 

 on short lateral branohlets, of six to ten thick scales, becoming 

 a roundish woody cone. Seeds acutely angled. Leaves small, 

 scale-like adnate, and appressed, opposite and imbricated. 



Cnpiessns GoTcniana, Gordon. — CaUfomia Cypress. — ^Leaves 

 bright green, quite small, thick, and without lateral depressions. 

 Cones small, round, a Uttle less than an inch in diameter, and 

 composed of from six to eight scales. A shrub or small bushy 

 tree, six to ten feet high or sometimes more. In the Coast 

 Ranges of California. Not hardy in our Northern States. 



C. MacnaUana, Murr. — McNab's Cypress. — Leaves very small, 

 deep green, somewhat glaucous, conspicuously pitted on the 

 back. Mature cones small, round, a little more than a half inch 

 in diameter. A shrub six to ten feet high, with numerous 

 slender branchlets. About clear lakes, and on Mount Shasta, 

 California. Hardy in England, and may thrive in protected 

 situations in our Middle States. 



C. macrocarpa, Hartwig. — Monterey Cypress. — Leaves bright 

 green, acute, obscurely pitted on the back, often with a longi- 

 tudinal furrow on each side. Scales of young cones with foha- 

 ceous tips, mature cones clustered on short, stout peduncles, 

 one to one ajid a half inch long, and nearly an inch in diame- 



