JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1963 169 



290793 to 290795— Continued 



Numbered July 11, 1963. 



290793. No. 165. 



290794. No. 174. 



290795. No. 267. 

 290796 to 290811. 



From Great Britain. Plants presented by A. H. Nisbet, Brookers Farm, 

 Gosport, England. Received Feb. 15, 1963. Numbered May 20, 1963. 



290796 to 290798. Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (Murray) Pari. 



Pinaceae. Lawson falsecypress. 



290796. From plant raised by J. Clark, "Nyewoods", Chilworth, South- 

 ampton. Plant is beautiful but not in the trade. 



290797. 'Dows' variety. Original seedling grown by Dow Nursery, 

 Oakdean, Calif. Nisbet's propagation, 13 years old, is 12 inches high 

 and 18 inches across. 



290798. 'Minima'. A seedling, growing in present site nearly 30 years, 

 now is 30 inches high and 5 feet across. All previous propagation 

 attempts have failed. 



290799 and 290800. Chamaecyparis obtusa (Sieb. & Zucc.) Endl. 



Hinoki falsecypress. 



290799. 'Laxa'. Plant low, wide spreading, open. Scarce. 



290800. 'Rigida'. Upright form. 



290801. Chamaecyparis sp. 



Plant low growing, globular, wide spreading; branches fernlike, pendu- 

 lous. 



290802. Cryptomeria japonica (L.f.) D. Don Common cryptomeria. 



'Knaptonensis'. From the Rev. Pro. Lyttle's plant, "Nyewoods", South- 

 ampton. 



290803 and 290804. Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw. Pinaceae. Cypress. 



290803. 'Contorta'. A low, wide-spreading, form mostly juvenile foli- 

 age, very congested, very dark. 



290804. 'Pygmaea' (Woking form). This is not forma pygmaea A. B. 

 Jackson; it is a better form raised as a seedling by Jackmans, Woking. 

 Propagated with difficulty. 



290805. Juniperus scopulorum f. viridifolia (D. Hill) Rehder Pinaceae. 

 'Nana'. A tiny, slow-growing, bushy plant. Difficult to grow. 



290806. Juniperus sp. 



Plant a dense mat, prostrate, to 3 inches high and 5 feet across, 30 years 

 old. 



290807. Libocedrus sp. Pinaceae. 



Parent plant 18 inches high, 10 inches wide, 14 years old. 

 290808 to 290810. Picea abies (L.) Karst. Pinaceae. Norway spruce. 



290808. Congested and tiny mutation on very old plant of f. pygmaea. 

 The mutation, after several years is only 3 inches across. 



290809. 'Phylicoides'. 



290810. 'Reflexa'. 



290811. Thuja orientalis L. Pinaceae. Oriental arborvitae. 



A strange little plant with twisted and contorted branchlets. 



