218 FOREST TREES. 
ornamental tree than many others cultivated for that 
purpose. According to Michaux its growth is slow. 
Cupressus Lawsoniana (Lawson’s Cypress), is a 
species of great beauty from California, where it 
grows to a large size, and affords valuable timber. 
The foliage is graceful and delicate, of feathery light- 
- ness, and bluish-green color; the ends of the branches 
are drooping. It is hardy around New York, and it 
is hoped may prove so in I}inois. Mr. Douglas raises 
it successfully from seed. The seedlings vary greatly 
in form, some being spreading, others quite fastigiate. 
C. Nootkaensis (Nootka Sound Cypress), is from the 
Pacific coast, and is a tree of large size, much resem- 
bling the preceding when small—perhaps somewhat 
less beautiful, but more hardy. It has been propa- 
gated by nurserymen under the name of Thuiopsis 
borealis. In its native country it is said to grow from 
eighty to one hundred feet high, 
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Flowers, dicecious, rarely monecious; anther cells, 
three to six, attached to the lower edge of the scale; 
fertile catkins, ovoid, of three to six, fleshy, one to 
three, ovuled caulescent scales, becoming a sort of a 
berry, scaly bracted at the base; s@eds, one to three, 
bony; cotyledons, two. 
The Junipers are a numerous family, mostly of for- 
eign origin. A few are of large size, and afford valu- 
able timber; but the greater part are mere shrubs or 
dwarfish trees, fit only for amateur culture. ‘he 
most valuable foreign species are unsuited to the cli- 
