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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 11/. 



Bemarkable Cypresses. Perhaps the oldest tree of which there is any record 



in the world ii the cypres* of Soma, or Sorrima, in Lombardy. This celebrated 



trf-, f,i which//". £325. i-, ;i portrait (from an original drawing kindly sent to us 



Manctti of Monza), is generally supposed to have been planted the 



of the birth of Jesus Christ, and on this account is treated with great re- 



. the inhabitant! of that part of Lombardy where it grows; but the 



Abbe* Beleze informs \u thai there u an ancient chronicle extant at Milan, which 



t thai if '■■■■' B tree in the time of .Julius Caesar, B. C. 42. (Sec p. 109.) 



