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it usually wears a sorry look, the lower branches dead or 

 dying. Only in quite favourable places, such as at 

 Dropmore, Maidenhead, will the tree attain a great 

 height and touch the ground with its prickly branches. 

 Once it gets out of health it is almost impossible to 

 restore its vigour. How often is this tree recommended 

 for small forecourt gardens, but it is better to have no 

 tree at all than this Araucaria 



Arborvitoe, Chinese.— See Thuja orientals. 



Biota OPiOiltalis.— See Thuja orientalis. 

 Cedars. — See Cedrus. 



CedrUS atlantiea. — This is a near relative of the Cedar 

 of Lebanon, from which it differs principally in being of 

 looser growth, while, as a rale, the foliage is more 

 glaucous, and in some this silvery blue tint is very 

 pronounced. The variety Glauca (the Silver Atlas 

 Cedar) is of 

 great beauty, 

 being in its best 

 forms of quite 

 a silvery colour, 

 and the tree 

 g ro w s vigor- 

 ously and 

 rapidly. It is 

 one of the best 

 of all the 

 g 1 a u c o u s 

 f o 1 i a g e d 

 Conifers. 



C. Daodara {the 

 Deodar).— 

 This is Hima- 

 layan, an d 

 remarkable for 

 its extreme 

 grace and 

 elegance, 

 though some 

 forms have this 

 character more 

 p r o n o u n c e d 

 than others. 

 The Deodar is 

 now frequently 

 met with, and 

 it succeeds in 

 the neighbour- 

 hood of London 

 better than 

 many other 

 Conifers. In 

 its Indian home 

 it is a valuable 

 timber tree, but 

 here is prin- 

 cipally grown 

 for its high 

 o r n a m e ntal 

 qualities. It 

 must be remem- 

 bered that it is not as hardy as one would like, and in the 

 last severe winter was considerably cut up. There are 

 several varieties. 



C. Libani. — The Cedar of Lebanon is well known, at 

 least by name, to almost everyone, and noble trees are 

 freely scattered throughout the country. As a rule its 

 massive trunk divides into several branches a short way 

 from the ground, the whole forming usually a flattened 

 tree, built up, as it were, of numerous tiers of branches. 

 The cones, which are borne in profusion, standing eiect 

 as they do scattered over the flattened branches, have a 

 singular effect. More need hardly be written of this tree. 

 It is alluded to in the introduction, and noble groups 

 are the glory of many an English park and garden. 



Cryptomeria japoniea. — The usual shape of this is a 



narrow spire, though in this respect individuals differ 

 somewhat. The branches are produced in an irregular 



A WALK OF CORSICAN PINE. 



manner, so that it is less symmetrical in shape than 

 many other Conifers. It prefers a good deep moist soil. 

 There are several varieties, one, Lobbi, being more 

 compact and of a deeper green, while nana is but a low 

 rounded bush. 



C. ClegfaTlo, frequently regarded as a distinct species, is a 

 form of C. japoniea. It i ^ a Japanese tree, which, when 

 standing singly, usually assumes the shape of a rounded 

 cone, very effective when from 6ft to 20ft. high. During 

 the growing season the foliage is bright green, but towards 

 the end of autumn it changes to a bronzy crimson, which 

 is retained throughout the winter, thus rendering it very 

 noticeable at that season. 



Cupressus (RetinospDi'a) filifera. — A dense shrub, 



usually assuming the shape of a blunted pyramid, with 

 long thread-like shoots and soft green leives. It forms a 



beauti ul speci- 



. ■ . . men on a lawn, 



f f standing out by 



itself on the 

 grass. 



C. Lawsoni- 



ana. — This is 

 one of the most 

 I eautiful ol all 

 the Cypress 

 tribe ; the rich 

 green Fern-like 

 bran c h lets, 

 which droop at 

 the tips in an 

 exceedingly 

 graceful 

 manner, with 

 the contour of 

 the entire 

 specimen, com- 

 bine to render 

 a plant of this 

 Cypress an 

 exceedingly 

 graceful object, 

 whose beautiful 

 green tint is 

 retained 

 throughout 

 the year. There 

 is quite a host 

 of varieties, 

 the best being: 

 Alba s p i c a , 

 young shoots 

 creamy white ; 

 alba variegata, 

 white branch- 

 lets inter- 

 spersed with 

 the green ones; 

 aureo - varie- 

 gata, with 

 golden variega- 

 tion arranged same as last ; erecta viridis, an upright 

 bright green form, one of the best of all ; filiformis, 

 with long, slender, cord-like branchlets ; gracilis, a 

 very graceful form; lutea, young growth bright yellow ; 

 nana, a globular plant, 2ft. or 3ft. high ; nana 

 glauca, like the last, but with bluish foliage. These 

 two will stand for years with little increase in size. 

 In the Kew hand list the varieties of C. Lawsoniana are 

 grouped according to the colour of foliage and form and 

 habit. As regards the colour of the foliage, the following 

 varieties are enumerated : Albo-maculata, albo-picta, albo- 

 spica, albo-variegata, argentea, argenteo-variegata, aurea, 

 aureo-variegata, glauca, glauca pendula, lutea, ochroleuca, 

 and Silver Queen. Of the columnar or fastigiate forms 

 the following are named : Alumi, erecta viridis, erecta 

 viridis argentea, Fraseri ; of spreading form, amabilis, 

 Bowleri, californica, darleyensis, fragrans, fragrans 



