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and if placed in gentle heat about October 

 and November wUl be well-rooted plants 

 about February or March. Once roots 

 are well formed the plants may be given 

 more air and light, and by the end of 

 May can be placed in cold frames, without 

 nowrever distm^bing them from the pots 

 or boxes in which they have rooted. In 

 the autumn they may be planted in a 

 cold frame, and by the following spring 

 will be sturdy enough for the open 

 ground. Old plants often have their 

 branches bent down and pegged into the 

 soU. The branchlets are surrounded with 

 fine soil at the base, and in about 12 

 months may be detached with roots. 

 The Retinospora section are often veneer- 

 grafted on stocks of the American Arbor 

 Vitae, usually in winter and imder glass. 



C. funebris {C.pendula; C.amcena). — 

 Funeral Cypress. — A graceful Chinese 

 tree about 50 ft. high in a wild state, and 

 having horizontal branches drooping at 

 the extremities, thus giving a ' weeping ' 

 appearance, and covered with scale-like 

 yellowish-green leaves. 



Culture Ac. as above. — This species is 

 unsuitable for any except the mildest 

 parts of the S. of England and Ireland, 

 as it is readily injvured by frost. There 

 is a form called glauca with blue-green 

 foliage. 



C. goveniana {C. calif ornica; C- 

 cornuta). — A beautiful CaUf ornian Cypress 

 40-50 ft. in a wild state, but less than 

 20 ft. high in this country, forming a dense 

 compact small tree. Leaves bright green, 

 scale-like, closely imbricated. Male cat- 

 kins yellow, freely produced in spring. 



Cidture dc. as above. This is safer in 

 the most southern parts of the country, 

 in rich moist well-drained soil. 



C. guadeloupensis. — A beautiftd tree 

 60-70 ft. high in its wild state on the 

 rocky canons and ridges on the New 

 Mexico and Arizona mountains, where it 

 forms extensive forests. 



Culture dc. as above. This species is 

 not very well known, but seems to be 

 hardy except perhaps north of the Tweed, 

 where it might require a little protection 

 and shelter in winter. It is considered 

 to be a form of C. macrocarpa by some. 



C. lawsoniana (C fragrans). — Laio- 

 son's Cypress ; Fort Orford Cedar. — This 

 is one of the most graceful Conifers in 

 cultivation. It is a native of California, 



where it forms a magnificent tree 150 to 

 200 ft. high in rich moist soil. At Dupplin 

 Castle, in Perthshire, there is a specimen 

 about 40 years of age and about 60 ft. 

 high ; and at Inverary Castle, the seat 

 of the Duke of Argyll, is another over 

 40 years of age and over 50 ft. high. 

 But most trees in the country are 

 20-30 ft. shorter than these. The small 

 closely imbricated dark glossy green 

 leaves are more or less tinged with a 

 glaucous hue, and the cones about the 

 size of small peas are borne in great 

 profusion on the drooping feathery Fern- 

 like branchlets. Fine specimens are 

 pyramidal or cone-like in shape, grace- 

 fully nodding at the top. There are 

 many charming varieties of Lawsou's 

 Cypress in cultivation, and they are all 

 worth growing. The characteristics of 

 most of them may be gleaned fi-om the 

 names, the best varieties being alho- 

 spica, albo-variegata, argentea, argenteo- 

 variegata, aureo-variegata, erecta viridis, 

 Jiliformia, gracilis pendula, lutea, nana, 

 nana alba, nana glauca. 



Culture So. as above. Besides seeds 

 and cuttings, many forms of Lawson's 

 Cypress are grafted upon stocks of the 

 common form easily raised from seed. 



C. Lindleyi (C. Coulteri; C. hnight- 

 ia/na ; C. harwinskiana). — A beautiful 

 Mexican Cypress 40-60 feet high in its 

 native state, and distinguished by its 

 graceful drooping feathery branchlets and 

 glaucous-blue scale-like leaves. 



Culture £c. as above. This is suit- 

 able only for the most favourable parts of 

 the south. 



C. lusitanica (C. glauca; C. pendula). 

 Cedar of Qoa. — An elegant tree of 

 uncertain origin, 40-50 ft. high, with a 

 loose and gracefully drooping habit and 

 acute minute keeled glaucous scaie-like 

 leaves. It may be a geographical form of 

 C. torulosa. In Portugal there are trees 

 over 150 ft. high and more than 250 years 

 old. At Eossdhu, in Dumbartonshire, 

 there is a fine specimen over 40 ft. high, 

 although this species is usually con- 

 sidered to be suitable only for southern 

 parts. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. macnabiana (C. glandtilosa; C. 

 nivalis). — A pretty pyramidal tree, native 

 of N. California, where it sometimes 

 grows 30 ft. high, but is more often a tall 



