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question was some nine or ten years later, when it 
was introduced in Lawson’s nursery at Edinburgh 
and brought before the notice of cultivators This 
conflict in names and dates reads like the perpetration 
of an anachronism somewhere. Perhaps the learned 
lexicographers were among the prophets, or men 
in advance of their time. The C. Sempervirens, or 
Roman Cypress, is the native tree of Cyprus. 
We read in an Eton boy’s verse, that— 
Many a Greek historian’s riddle 
May be solved by Scott and Liddell. 
One seems to have been propounded here by the 
authors of the sources of solution. 
This very fact, that it has so many forms, may be 
a reason that we find it to be planted more abundantly 
than any tree of its kind in the gardens and grounds 
of Great Britain. Like a fashionable sartorial estab- 
lishment, it has styles to suit all forms and shapes. 
It has varieties that suit all environments, from such 
earthly distances as a mixed plantation to a walled-in 
cemetery. So far we have not seen it under agricul- 
tural conditions, with self-pruned trunks and bared 
stems. At some future time perhaps another genera~- 
tion will meet it more often as a tree under these 
conditions, both it and the Thuya Plicata. Perhaps 
some day belts of them will be cultivated as wind 
screens, and left standing for the next crop to seek 
their shelter from, until such a day when its economic 
value is appreciated at a value as it is in its Oregon 
native home, and it finds a home in our English 
timber yards and lumber markets. 
Upon some comparative differences of these four 
species of Chamecyparis, Lawson, Nootkatensis, Ob- 
tusa, Pisifera, we have made analysis in the Table 
of Differences and will proffer a few more remarks 
on the subject. 
