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Coast White-Cedar in the center. The last tall tree in the back- 

 ground is another Scarab Cypress. 



The two remaining lower trees in the foreground with somewhat 

 drooping foliage are 



Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, the Yellow Cypress or 

 Yellow Cedar 



The Yellow Cedar, known also as Nootka Cypress, attains 

 heights of 100 feet and more along the Pacific Coast, where it is 

 native from Alaska to Oregon. In the Garden this species does 

 not grow well, undoubtedly because of the relatively dry warm 

 summers. 



The foliage of this species somewhat resembles that of Law- 

 son's Cypress but it is coarser and duller green. The cones, fur- 

 thermore, have triangular pointed processes which are absent from 

 those of Lawson's Cypress. 



The wood of Yellow Cedar is very valuable on the West Coast, 

 where it has been much used in shipbuilding and other industries. 



General Discussion 



Only six kinds of Cypress are known. They are native to the 

 Atlantic and Pacific Coast regions of North America, to Japan 

 and to Formosa. In eastern North America is Chamaecyparis 

 thyoides, the Wliite Cedar, and on the West Coast are C. Lawson- 

 iana, the Port-Orford Cedar, and C. nootkatensis, the Yellow 

 Cedar. In Formosa one species is endemic, C. formosensis, and 

 in Japan are the two remaining species, C. obtusa and C. pisifera. 

 They are all trees of great size. C. formosensis grows 190 feet 

 tall, with a trunk 60 feet in girth, the largest of all coniferous 

 trees indigenous in the Old World north of the Equator and 

 rivaled only by the great Cryptomeria of Japan, which we shall 

 meet later. 



All these trees are of considerable timber value and ornamen- 

 tally, as we have seen, their numerous forms are unexcelled. 



These trees grow best in somewhat moist but well-drained sandy 

 loam and partial shade. They all require shelter against drying 



