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vivid green foliage : and Macrocarjja, when propagated from cuttings, 

 is Lamhertiana^ which has not a distinct and continuous leader, hut 

 in the young state forms a more horizontal, spreading-hranched, and 

 bushy-headed plant with the foliage of a somewhat darker shade. 

 There are likewise two varieties : — Fastigiata^ (fastigiate-hranched,) 

 and Variegata^ (variegated-leaved.) It is a native of IvTorth-West 

 America, and has been found plentiful in California. 



CUPRESSUS NUTKAENSIS : The I^ootka Sound Cypress. 



This is thoroughly hardy, sturdy, good in constitution, and in every 

 respect well adapted for our climate, soils, and altitudes ; and a useful 

 ornamental plant : somewhat resembling its congener Lawsoniana ; 

 and, like it, partaking a good deal of the Arbor- Yitss character. It is 

 found more or less plentiful along the west coast of JSTorth America, 

 more particularly at '^Xootka Sound," hence the name, where it 

 attains a height of one hundred feet. Its wood is white when fresh 

 cut, yellowish when seasoned, soft and porous, and highly fragrant and 

 juicy, but not very durable. It is well adapted as an ornamental 

 plant for cold and exposed locahties ; vsince even under such conditions 

 it would form a nice, erect-stemmed, spreading-branched, drooping- 

 twigged, glaucous, or silvery -green, conical shrub or small tree ; fra- 

 grant and aromatic as the Savin Juniper. There is a Fragmns form, 

 which is also a beautiful plant. 



CUPRESSUS SemperVIRENS: The Evergreen Cyprus. 



This tree is well known by this name, though it might be termed a 

 misnomer, inasmuch as semper — always, and virens — green, are the 

 characteristics of all the Cypresses in this Section; nay, in all the 

 Sections and Sub-Sections of Cupressinece, with the exception of 

 C upresspinnata. 



It is found more or less plentifully in Asia, Greece, Persia, and 

 Southern Europe ; also in India, and was much esteemed by the 

 ancients both for its timber and ornament : in Italy it is much culti- 

 vated, where some of the finest and largest trees of it yet found have 

 been grown ; some of which are one hundred and twenty-five feet 

 high, but from twenty-five to fifty feet are the heights it attains in 

 Britain. The wood is comparatively fine-grained, compact, easily 

 wrought, capable of receiving a good polish, and tolerably resinous, 

 consequently durable. Like many of its congeners it is to be found 

 in many forms, the most noticeable being the Upright" and the 

 Horizontal-branched while of each of these again there are several 

 varieties and sub-varieties; some remarkable for their rustic, robust, 



