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color, alternately two round, and nearly all the inner side quite 

 straight ; leaves in alternately opposite pairs, closely imbricated, 

 those on the branchlets being much shorter, more rounded, and 

 furnished with a short spiny point ; besides which, one forms a 

 tree of one hundred and forty, while the other (Thu. Menziesii) 

 only attains an altitude of forty feet. 



We are not yet able to say what either of these trees will 

 do in this country. The real gigdntea is said to be hardy, and 

 the false not. At Elizabethtown, N. J., Mr. Reid writes us, 

 " The true one grows rapidly, and will no doubt prove hardy." 

 At Augusta it stands perfectly well. At Flushing, not quite 

 hardy. These are the only reports we have, and our own plants 

 are out for the first time. 



Thu. macrocarpa.—T^hi& is a variety we received, if we mis- 

 take not, several years since, from Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, 

 of Rochester, and about which we can find no mention in any 

 of the books, nor does it seem to exist in any of the foreign 

 Pinetums, or in any nurserymen or collectors' catalogues. It 

 resembles so much the Thu. giganiea, that we are inclined 

 to think it is this variety under a different name. "We have 

 never tried it out, as we could not find anything of its charac- 

 ter or habits under this name. 



Thu. variegata (Variegated arbor vitse). — Only a golden- 

 striped variety of our common arbor vitse, but pretty and dis- 

 tinctive, and perfectly hardy. 



Thu. aurea Americana (American Golden arbor vitas). — Is 

 an exceedingly pretty and well-marked seedling, found acci- 

 dentally in a nursery row by our neighbor, Mr. Daniel Brinck- 

 enhofij and named by us as above. The new growth is very 

 distinctly yellow, and the old foilage, which is a bright clear 

 green, tones off so gradually and delicately into the golden 

 hue of the new, as to produce a most pleasing little tree, and 

 perfectly hardy. 



Thu. Hoveyi (Hovey's arbor vitte). — Another American 

 seedling not yet introduced, but which is described to us by 

 Messrs. Hovey (in whose nursery, near Boston, it was found) 

 as a seedling of Occidentalis, as hardy as an oak, having never 

 lost a limb in the severe winters of '55 and '56. Very nearly of 

 the same habit as Aurea, compact and upright branches ; leaves 



