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 PART 7— CYPRESSES 



VERY VALUABLE ORNAMENTAL EVERGREENS 



Section 1 



Section 1 of the Cypresses is located along the western half of 

 the path close to the drive in front of Conservatory Range 1 

 (Map p. 57). As indicated on the map, we shall begin at the 

 eastern extremity of the path that extends from the western side 

 of the Conservatory toward the Elevated Railway Approach. The 

 evergreens here serve as a background for the flower bed. All the 

 trees in this first Section are either Sawara Cypress or Hinoki 

 Cypress, both natives of Japan, or some form of these two trees. 

 The number of known varieties is great and the nursery name of 

 "Retinospora" is applied to nearly all of them. 



The first evergreen nearest the Conservatory is 



Chamaecyparis obtusa var. nana, the Dwarf Hinoki-Cypress 



This is one of the finest ornamental evergreens. It is char- 

 acterized by its dark color and denseness of foliage caused by 

 short branchlets and by very slow growth. It may attain a height 

 of ten feet or more and when in a thrifty condition is very hand- 

 some because of its dense rich dark-green foliage. 



Next we see two larger plants set back a bit with prominently 

 bluish feathery foliage conspicuously different from that of the 

 form we have just passed. There are several similar trees filling 

 the interior of the group behind these two. They are all 



Chamaecyparis pisifera var. pseudo-squarrosa, the Moss 

 Retinospora 



This is a rather common variety of the Japanese Sawara- 

 Cypress and is very readily recognized by its bluish color and 

 feathery foliage. The botanical name assigned to it here is not 

 generally found in the literature, where it usually is designated 

 merely as Chamaecyparis pisifera var. squarrosa. The additional 

 name Veitchii is sometimes added to this, for the plant is also 



