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CONI FEK7E. C'UPRE SSUS. 



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those of 7 T huja. (See p. 2460.) The cones, which appear to be ripe in autumn, 

 are not perfectly so, but require to hang on the trees till the following March 

 or April. They may then be gathered, and placed in a warm room, or in a box 

 or basket, and set in a dry stove. In a few days, the scales will open, when 

 the cones may be thrashed and the seeds collected : they may be immediately 

 afterwards sown, and treated like those of the ^bietinae. In England, it is 

 common to sow the seeds in flat pans or in boxes ; because, as they are 

 somewhat tender when they first come up, they admit of being more readily 

 protected by being carried to a pit. Unlike the seeds of the genus Thuja, 

 which commonly lie in the ground a year, those of the cypress come up in three 

 or four weeks. They grow to the height of 3 in. or 4 in. the first season, and 

 maybe transplanted into pots, and kept in a pit through the winter. At the end of 

 the second autumn, they may be planted where they are finally to remain ; but, 

 if it bethought necessary, they may be kept three or four years in pots ; shifting 

 them frequently, or allowing them to remain in the pot unshifted, according 

 as the object may be to produce large plants, or to concentrate the roots in a 

 small ball, so as to occupy less space in sending the trees to a distance. When 

 the cypress is planted where it is finally to remain, and the situation and soil 

 are suitable, it may be said to require no farther attention during the whole of 

 its existence. It always grows erect, so that no care is requisite to train up 

 a leading shoot ; and, as its branches occupy little space, it seldom or never 

 requires pruning. The only culture which we have ever seen given to it in 

 England is, replacing some of the side shoots when their points may have 

 been blown out, by a violent storm of wind and rain, so as to protrude beyond 

 the regular head : but this happens only in very old trees, and in exposed 

 situations ; as, for example at Croome. 



Statistics. At Syon, it is 52 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 3 in., and of the head 8 ft. ; at 

 Fulham Palace, 50 years planted, it is 40 ft. high. In Devonshire, at Kenton, 38 years old, it is 60 ft. 

 high, diameter of the trunk 2 ft. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 44 years planted, it is 44 ft. high. 

 In Surrey, at St. Ann's Hill, it is 35 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 1 ft. In Northumberland, at 

 Heartburn, 80 years planted, it is 35 ft. high. In Suffolk, at Stretton Rectory, it is 63 ft. high, with 

 a trunk 2 ft. in diameter. In France, at Avranches, in the garden of M. Brunei, 26 years planted, 

 it is 30 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, ".150 years old, it is 90 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 

 6 in., and of the head 20 ft. 



Commercial Statistics. Price of seeds, in London, of both varieties, 6s. per 

 pound; and of plants in pots, Is. 6d. each. 



1 2. C. thyoides L. The Thuja-like Cypress, or White Cedar. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 512. ; Kalm It., 2. p. 175. ; Mill. Diet., No. 5. ; Du Roy Harbk., 



2. p. 198. ; Wangh. Amer., 8. t. 2. ; Willd. Arb., 92. ; N. Du Ham., 3. p. 6. j Bon Jard., ed. 1837 ; 



Laws. Man., p. 391. 

 Synonymes. C. nana mariana, &c, Pluk. Mant, 61., t. 345. f. 1. ; rhuja spha?roidalis Rich. M4m. 



sur les Com/., p. 45. ; Cypres faux Thuja, Fr. 

 Ensravinss. Wangh. Amer., t. 2. f. 4. ; Pluk. Mant., t. 345. f. 4. ; N. Du Ham. 3. t. 2. ; N. Amer , 



Syl., 3. t. 152. ; Wats.\Dend. Brit, t. 156. ; and our Jig. 2327. 



Spec. Char.y $c. Branch- 

 lets compressed. Leaves 

 imbricated in 4 rows, 

 ovate tuberculate at 

 the base. (Willd.) An 

 evergreen tree; a na- 

 tive of North America. 

 Introduced in 1736; 

 flowering in April and 

 May. 

 Variety. 



IC.t. 2foliis varie- 

 gatis has clus- 

 ters of the leaves variegated, or blotched, with white. The plant in 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden, after being 6 years planted, is 

 5 ft. high. It was received from the Dunganstown Nursery in Ireland, 

 about 1831. 



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