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carried out chiefly in North Germany, and there 

 only on a very small scale, say, according to 

 Schwappach, hardly 2j hectares in all. 



42. Chamcscyparis lawsoniana, Pari., Lawson's 

 Cypress, Port Oxford Cedar. 



The ornamental planting of parks first drew 

 attention some fifty years since to this particular 

 kind of wood. It belonged to those West Ameri- 

 can species which came pretty well through the 

 exceptionally cold winter which prevailed in Mid- 

 Europe in 1 879-1 880, and it was only at a later 

 period that Sargent and Mayr called attention to 

 the splendid qualities of the timber (light, very 

 durable, and scented). 



If we may judge from an experience of twenty 

 years, the wood grown in Germany is quite equal 

 in excellence to the American variety. Forma- 

 tion of heart wood appears in the tenth year, and 

 the wood possesses the same strong, pungent 

 odour as the American kind. Strong poles 

 which had fallen victim to the worst enemy of 

 this cypress, namely, the root fungus, Agaricus 

 melleus, were utilised for palings without re- 

 moving the bark, as is often done in America. 

 Another fungoid disease has proved fatal to 

 many different plantations in Germany, that is, 

 the one which attacks branches and terminal 

 shoots, known as the bark fungus, Pestalozzia 



