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and spreading in every direction with a marvellous profusion 

 into a perfect circle. It is unquestionably hardy all over the 

 colder portion, at least, of the United States. 



Pseudo-larix hosmferi. Golden ok Chinese Laboh. 



This properly belongs to the deciduous class of trees ; though 



■when first sent to England by Mr. Fortune, 



*'"■• it was supposed to be a fir, and Mr. Lambert 



Pirnis do. classed it among the pines. It is still very 



rare and very expensive ; plants only two 



inches high costing seven dollars in England. "We know of but 



one other specimen in this country, besides our own, which was 



too small to venture out this winter, though we intend doing so 



next. It will, no doubt, prove hardy, coming as it does from 



the northern provinces of China. The leaves are a beautiful 



bright green, when young, but before autumn assume a fine 



golden yellow. There being no specimens in England over a 



foot high, we have no further description of this tree. 



Idhocedrus. Incense Cedak. 



This exquisite genus (for all the varieties are alike beautiful) 

 is another of Mr. Endlicher's introductions from ChiK and New 

 Zealand. The name is derived from libanos, incense, and 

 cedrus, the cedar. It is found upon the Andes of Chili, where 

 it grows to the height of sixty to eighty feet, and bears so close 

 a resemblance to the arbor vitse, as, by many, to be classed with 

 this tree, having the same pyramidal habit, thickly clothed with 

 beautifully delicate, glaucous and light grden imbricated leaves 

 from its very base. 



There are but four varieties, three of which have been im- 

 ported, by collectors of evergreens, into this country, viz. : 

 GMliensis, Doniana and decurrens, of which the first and last 

 only approach to some hope of being acclimatized. 



L. Chiliensis, we have had several years. Our oldest plant 

 survived three winters on an open lawn, protected simply by 



