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for those who dwell among their own people and in 
places remote from the temperate house at Kew, 
there is not much chance afforded of following up 
these points that they bear in common. 
There are some who quite pardonably might imagine 
that it bore an outward and visible resemblance to 
certain of the Cephalotaxi family, but the more 
spiny, slender, grass-like leaves, with their long 
tapering-to-a-point appearance, of the Cunninghamia 
dissociate it severely from any Cephalotaxi. There 
are other and very marked individualities in its 
foliage. The green leaf of the Cunninghamia is 
adpressed to the stem, and on the young branchlets. 
retains upon its decurrent length the colour of the 
leaf. Perhaps the most conclusive clue to its identity 
lies in the fact that the margins of its leaves are 
minutely toothed, but not so minutely that it cannot 
be recognised without glasses. 
As a tree with us it is, on the whole, little known. 
It was introduced more than a century ago, but living 
trees are estimated not to be much more than sixty 
years old. It has always had a reputation for feeling 
too acutely the nipping air of northern latitudes, to 
the detriment of its health, colour, and complexion: 
It has always rather affected a ‘‘sighing for Dixie” 
appearance, and borne a character for debility. It is 
supposed to be rather exacting in its demands for. 
heat and humidity, of which, we may -safely say, 
the latter is a more accessible commodity than the 
former in our particular zone. 
Messrs. Elwes and Henry have recounted observa- 
tions of quite a fair show of respectably grown trees. 
One we know of, and one growing well at Coed Coch, 
N. Wales (the Hon. Mrs. Lawrence Broderick’s); have 
escaped the notice of their ais | in- 
vestigations. 
What more concerns us at Vs present day is the 
