HARDY ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS. 



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A. sachalinensis — A handsome tree, with small narrow 

 leaves. In Japan it forms a tall pyramidal tree. 1879. 



A, Vcitchii. — A slender tree, attaining a height of 

 100 feet in Japan,, The leaves are densely arranged on 



Fig. 407.— Abies nobilis. 



the branches and are bright-green above, very glaucous 

 beneath, varying from \ to 1 inch long. 1879. 



Aeaucakia imbricata, Chili Pine. — A remarkable tree, 

 with rigid whorled branches clothed with thick hard 

 spine-tipped imbricated leaves; it nourishes in sheltered 

 positions where the soil is good and well drained. Chili, 

 1796. 



Biota. See Thuja. 



Cedrus. — Noble trees, with horizontal branches (droop- 

 ing when young in C. Deodara), and erect oblong or 

 ovoid cones. 



C. atlantica, Atlas Cedar. — A grand hardy tree, the 

 foliage dark -green or silvery, and the branches less 

 spreading than in the Cedar of Lebanon. Although 

 always more or lees silvery, the foliage varies consider- 

 ably in different forms. Var. glauca, and still more 

 argentea, are beautifully bright. Northern Africa, 1843. 



C. Deodara, Deodar. — When young this has slender, 

 flexible, drooping branches, a character it loses as it 

 becomes older. Nurserymen distinguish several varieties, 

 among which crassifolia, with short, thick, rigid foliage, 

 argentea, with silvery foliage, and robusta, of stouter and 

 more vigorous growth, are the most distinct. It grows in 

 almost any tolerable soil, and in some parts of Britain 

 promises to be a valuable timber-tree. As a rule, how- 

 ever, it does not thrive like the Atlas and Lebanon 

 Cedars. Northern India, where it attains a height of 

 100 to 150 feet. 1822. 



C. Libani, Cedar of Lebanon. — A majestic but slow- 

 growing tree, with large spreading branches. Requires 

 great care in transplanting. Syria, &c, introduced before 

 1683. 



Cephalotaxus. — Small trees with the foliage of Yews, 

 and producing plum-like fruits. 



C. drupacea. — This grows from 20 to 30 feet high, and 

 has leaves 1 to 1-|- inch long. It succeeds best in moist 

 shady situations. China and Japan, 1849. 



C. Fortunei. — A very ornamental species from 40 to 

 50 feet high, with rigid two-ranked leaves nearly 3 inches 

 long. Northern China, 1849. 



C. pedunculata. — A shrub of dwarf er habit than either 

 of the preceding; leaves dark-green above, marked 

 underneath with two silvery lines. Var. fastigiata is an 

 erect-growing form resembling the Irish Yew. Japan, 

 1837. 



Cryptomeria. — A small group from Japan and China, 

 of ornamental aspect, only succeeding well in sheltered 

 localities. 



C. elegans. — Very distinct in character, and remarkable 

 for its branchlets being decurved, and the spreading squar- 

 rose foliage changing to a 

 brownish - green or bronzy 

 tint in winter. Its general 

 outline is broadly conical. 

 In its native country it 

 forms a tree 30 feet high, 

 and is really a state of 

 growth of the following spe- 

 cies. Japan, 1863. 



C. japonica, Japanese 

 Cedar (fig. 408).— A fast- 

 growing tree, forming hand- 

 some conical specimens on 

 well-drained warm soils, but 

 the branches are brittle and 

 easily stripped from the 

 trunk by strong winds 

 There are several varieties 

 in cultivation, the chief of 

 which are Lobbii, also called 

 viridis, dwarfer and of a 

 brighter green; and nana, a 

 very dwarf flat-headed bush 

 of some 2 to 3 feet high. 

 Japan and Northern China, 

 1845. 



Cunninghamia sinensis. 

 — A lofty tree, somewhat 

 resembling an Araucaria in 

 its aspect. Requires a well- 

 drained light soil, and is 

 only hardy in very favoured 



spots. It is so liable to be disfigured by storms and 

 hard frosts that few good specimens of it exist in Britain. 

 China, 1804. 



Fig. 408.— Cryptomeria japonica: 

 proliferous cones. 



