CUPEESSUS 



CONIFERS 



CUPEESSUS 979 



shrub branching upwards from the 

 ground, and is remarkable for the dull 

 purple-red colour of its branches. The 

 small scale-like deep green leaves are 

 arranged in 4 rows on the rigid branch- 

 lets, and the globular cones have roundish 

 or blunt scales, each having a thick pro- 

 jecting recurved point. 



Culture Sc. as above. This rare species 

 is probably hardy except in the bleakest 

 and coldest parts of the kingdom. 



C. macrocarpa (C. lamhertiama 

 fastigiata; 0. Hartwegi; 0. Bei/n- 

 wardti). — Monterey Cypress. — A beauti- 

 ful quick-growing tree, native of South 

 California, where according to Hartweg, 

 who discovered it in 1847, it attains a 

 height of 60 ft., and has far-spreading 

 branches, flat at the top like a full-grown 

 Cedar of Lebanon, which it closely 

 resembles when seen at a distance. The 

 branchlets are famished with small scale- 

 like deep green leaves, and the scales of 

 the roundish or oblong cones 1-2 in. long 

 have somewhat projecting and recurved 

 centres. At Carolew in Cornwall there 

 is a specimen about 85 ft. high, the girth 

 of the trunk at 3 ft. from the ground 

 being nearly 11 ft. At CooUattin in 

 Wicklow a specimen under 50 years of 

 age is 65 ft. or more high. 



Culture dc. as above. It seems to 

 thrive in most parts of the country and 

 by the sea. 



C. nootkatensis {Chamcecyparis nut- 

 haensis). — Alaslca Cypress. — A handsome 

 and valuable tree, native of Vancouver's 

 Island, British Columbia &o., where it 

 reaches a height of 100-125 ft., with a 

 trunk 4-6 ft. in diameter, but it attains 

 only about half these dimensions in the 

 British Islands. The branches are some- 

 what erect with distichous branchlets 

 elegantly reciu-ved at the tips, and covered 

 with small rich dark green acute leaves, 

 sUghtly glaucous on the lower or shady 

 side of the branches. The scales of the 

 globular cones about f iri. in diameter 

 have a cone-Hke boss or projection in the 

 centre. There are several distinct 

 varieties, all with more or less descriptive 

 names, such as argenteo-variegata, aureo- 

 vwriegata, compacta, glauca, pendula, 

 variegata, viridis &c. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. obtusa {Cha/mcBcyparis ohtusa ; 

 Hetvnospora ohtusa; Thuya ohtusa). — 



A handsome Japanese tree 70-100 ft. 

 high in a wild state, with spreading fan- 

 like branches and scaly leaves mostly 

 in whorls of 4, ovate rhomboid, blunt or 

 seldom pointed, and closely pressed to 

 the branchlets. 



There are many charming varieties of 

 this species, better known perhaps in 

 gardens under the name of Betvnospora. 

 The best for gardens are alho-picta, 

 aurea, compacta, filicoides, gracilis 

 aurea, lycopodioides, nana, plumosa with 

 its sub-varieties alho-picta, argentea, 

 aurea; tetragona aurea and variegata — 

 names which explain the peculiarities of 

 each. There is a specimen of G. obtusa 

 at Carclew, Cornwall, about 25 ft. high. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. pisifera {Chamiscyparis pisifera; 

 Betinospora pisifera; Thuya pisifera). 

 An elegant Japanese tree found growing 

 with C. obtusa, but much smaller and 

 more slender in habit. It grows 18-20 ft. 

 high at the most in British gardens, and 

 lias its numerous branchlets covered with 

 4 rows of smooth scale-like leaves, the 

 upper and lower ones tapering to a hard 

 point, and keeled behind ; the side ones 

 almost sickle-shaped and marked beneath 

 with 2 white bands. There are several 

 varieties, the most distinct and constant 

 being filifera, with slender thread-like 

 branchlets ; plumosa, which represents 

 a feathery intennediate stage between 

 young and old plants; and squarrosa, 

 a young bushy glaucous form with 

 spreading linear leaves. There are also 

 gold and silver variegated forms like 

 those of ohtusa, and all better known in 

 gardens as Betinosporas. These varieties, 

 as Dr. Masters says, represent more or 

 less permanent stages of growth, but 

 inasmuch as they pass one into the other 

 by intermediate gradations, and as the 

 various forms may be met with on one 

 and the same tree, not only at different 

 times but sometimes simultaneously, it 

 is obvious they have no claim to specific 

 rank. 



Culture do. as above. 



C. serapervireijs {C. fastigiata; C. 

 pyramidaUs; C. whitleyama). — A hand- 

 some tall tapering S. European Conifer, 

 with erect branches growing close to the 

 trunk, and with &ond-like branchlets 

 covered with smooth imbricated yeUowish- 

 green leaVes. The cones are about 1 in. 



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