LIBOCEDRUS DECURRENS 183 
California by several other cognomens—to wit, 
White, Bastard, and Post Cedar. I leave the subject 
here for readers at their will to work out the con- 
nection of name and non-connection of form. They 
are not hard conundrums to cope with. 
The appearance of the trees from a scenic point of 
view shall shortly be reviewed here. The Lombardy 
Poplar may be cited as its analogue in form and 
structure for those situations where you seek a 
column or chimney, or may we add campanile, effect ; 
and when we cite this comparison we must ask readers 
to bear in mind that we are not disregarding the fact 
that chimneys in the abstract do not produce one 
and the same effect in all places from a landscape 
point of view. 
There are the huge chimneys of the Midlands, used 
in connection with commercial enterprises, and they, 
all must concede, are a blot hideous enough, in all 
conscience, to ‘disfigure the charm of any landscape 
that Nature has ever produced. Then, again, on 
the other hand, we have the perfectly designed 
chimneys evolved by the best of architects, in an 
Augustan age of literature and art, in the times of 
Queen Elizabeth, and later Stuart days when many 
of the best so-called Elizabethan buildings were 
designed and erected, and which are the glory of 
their art and the pride of a nation. 
When a tall, towering, columnar tree of almost 
maypole slenderness of form comes to be planted, the 
position has to be selected with a more than ordinary 
care than that often bestowed upon many other 
heroes of the forest and glories of the glade. It has 
more than ever to be placed carefully and consider- 
ately, according to the circumstances and agencies 
of its surroundings. All this should go without 
saying, yet we take the liberty of repeating it with a 
view to emphasize the fact that we believe many 
