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tion which the author has not himself seen ; and in most cases the reader is 

 referred to the tree, with its height and dimensions, from which the descrip- 

 tion is taken." "We can cordially recommend it to our readers as a useful 

 manual. 



LARGE DECIDUOUS CYPRESS. 



We find in the English Gardener's Chronicle, the following as dimensions 

 of what is quoted as an enormous Cypress tree, quite a lusus naturae there. 

 It is growing in the vicarage of Boxley, Kent : height sixty feet, the spread 

 of the lower branches, which feather quite to the ground about forty-five 

 feet, girth nine feet four inches at two feet from the ground, and seven feet 

 three inches at six feet. It stands on the edge of a small pond, in which its 

 roots luxuriate, being natural to swampy ground. The thought occurred to 

 us what is the girth of that magnificent specimen growing in the Bartram 

 Garden, Philadelphia, and in a similar situation, near a small pond, if we 

 recollect rightly. Perhaps our friend T. Meehan can inform us. In Bux- 

 ton's Mexico, a cypress is alluded to, which would girth seventeen yards, 

 over fifty feet, and there were many others of equal size on the Chapultepec 

 heights, near Mexico, some of which were sadly battered by the American 

 cannon at the time of the storming of the fort. That our English cousins 

 should consider a tree of nine feet girth, worthy of a newspaper paragraph, 

 shows at least that they have not been to America, and reminds us of the 

 Englishman, who was relating with great gusto to his American visitor the 

 natural wonders of their Island, and among other things, as a fact, whether 

 he believed it or not, that their great river, the Thames, was really one- 

 hundred and fifty miles long. He had never heard of that small stream, the 

 Mississippi, over two thousand miles in length. — Farm Journal. 



In page one-hundred and seventeen of last year's volume, the dimensions 

 of the Bartram cypress is given as one-hundred and thirty-seven feet high 

 and twenty feet in circumference. 



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