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are numerous, dense, long, and very flexible in our plants (in 

 pots) like whip-cords. We have not received any reports of 

 this tree. 



D. Cupressinum (the Cypress-like dacrydium), though not 

 hardy, is well worthy of cultivation in pots. It is exceedingly 

 graceful and pretty, with slender, delicate, almost thread-like, 

 drooping shoots, thickly clothed with small, spiny leaves. A 

 specimen we have, about eight feet high, is much admired. 

 There are several other varieties for the conservatory. 



Fiiz Roya Patagonia. The Patagonian Fitz Rota. 



A large evergreen tree, found in the mountains of Patagonia 

 growing one hundred feet high, but introduced within the past 

 three years into England, where so far it stands well. Our 

 specimens are out for their first winter. "We have every reason 

 to suppose this may survive our climate ; since in its native 

 country it diminishes from one hundred feet in the valleys, 

 to only a few inches on the borders of perpetual congelation. 



Glyptostrohus. The Embossed Ctpeess. 



This new genus, which has been but lately introduced under 

 this name (derived from " GlypJw," embossed, and "strobus," a 

 cone), but has been previously by some botanists regarded as 

 a Taxodium; is a native of China, where it is called the Water 

 pine. 



The only variety of this genus, apparently recognized as dis- 

 tinct by the English, is G. heterophyllus, known also as Thuja 

 pensilis, and Taxodium Japonicum ; although Endlicher* has 

 another and very beautiful variety, which we have found per- 

 fectly hardy at Wodenethe, more so even than G. heterophyl- 

 lus. This is the Glyptostrohus sinensis pendulus, which is also 

 recoo-nized under this name by the French arboriculturists, 

 though in the English Pinetums, and by Gordon, in his very 

 excellent work on Conifers, it is classed as a Taxodium ; and 

 we have imported it from France as Glyptostrohus sinensis pen- 

 dulus ; from England, as Taxodium sinense pendulum ; while in 



