64 FAMILIAR TEEES 



• latitudes, very much above sea - level. To see 

 Cypresses flourisliing most luxuriantly in England 

 one should visit the sheltered sandy combes facing 

 the sea in South Devon, as at Ivybridge or Salcombe, 

 where they seem as much at home as in Candia 

 itself. Until it reaches a considerable age the 

 Common Cypress is, however, somewhat too stiff in 

 outline for our modern taste in gardening, so that 

 it is now being replaced by the more free-growing 

 species from North America and Asia, especially the 

 now much and deservedly admired Cwpressus 

 Lawsonia'na Murray. 



