248 THE CYPRESS. 
C. Nootkatensis (Loudon); syn. C. Nutkaensis (Lambert) ; 
Thuiopsis Borealis (Fischer) ; Abies Aromatica (Rafinesque.)— 
This is a tall evergreen tree, of recent introduction, from 
the north-west coast of North America, where it attains the 
height of 100 feet, with spreading or curved flexible branches, 
which, when old, are covered with small blisters filled with a 
fine aromatic balsam. The tree abounds at Nootka Sound, in 
Observatory Inlet, and on the island of Sitcha. It is found 
to be quite hardy in the north of Scotland, vigorous in 
growth, of great beauty, and its foliage is seldom discoloured 
by: the severest winter. 
C. macrocarpa (Hartwig) ; syn. C. Lambertiana (Gordon.)— 
This tree was introduced into this country about the year 
1840, from the wooded heights of Monterey, in Upper Cali- 
fornia, where it forms a tree sixty feet high, with a stem nine 
feet in circumference, with wide-spreading branches and flat 
top, like a full-grown cedar of Lebanon, which, when old, it 
very much resembles. While young, and until its upward 
growth subsides, it advances with a pyramidal-shaped head, 
with foliage of a bright grassy green of great beauty, and it 
grows very rapidly in rich soil. In Scotland, it is generally 
reckoned quite hardy, but during the spring of 1867 it was 
cut down by frost in some hollow situations, where the C. 
Nootkatensis and C. Lawsoniana stood uninjured. It should 
therefore have an open and airy situation, moderately ele- 
vated, on dry ground, and all the better if the severity of 
frosts is mitigated by the influence of the sea. 
There are many other species of the cypress, such as Thyo- 
ides, or white cedar, a native of North America; C. Torulosa, 
from the Himalayas; but they suffer from frost, or do not 
attain to the size of timber trees in North Britain. 
The mode of growing the common cypress from seed is 
adapted to the growth of all the species. In the absence of 
seed, propagation by cuttings is practised on all newly intro- 
duced and rare kinds, but plants from these are inferior to 
seedlings. 
