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Cupressus eunebris. Endlicher. [alias Cupressus pendula, 

 Staunton, Loudon, &c.) A large weeping evergreen coniferous tree, 

 from Chinese Tartary. Obtained by Mr. Fortune, and introduced by 

 Messrs. Standish and Co., of Bagshot. (Fig. 35.) 



This is probably the most interesting Coniferous plant yet in cultivation, and 

 must in time displace the Weeping Willow. It is perfectly hardy, as was indicated 

 by its native country. A figure of it is given in Lord Macartney's Embassy to 

 China, where it forms a weeping tree in the foreground of the view of the " Vale of 

 Tombs," a place situated in the inclement climate of Zhe hoi. The rude representa- 

 tions of it on Chinese porcelain, having been copied by our manufacturers, have 

 given rise to the " willow-pattern " found in one of the commonest kinds of English 

 table-ware. Mr. Fortune's account of his discovery of the tree was given in the 

 Gardeners? Chronicle of April 13, 1850, to which the reader is referred for more 

 detailed information concerning its habits. 



Libocedrus tetragona. Endlicher. [alias Juniperus uvifera, 

 Don; alias Thuja tetragona, Hooker.) A magnificent evergreen Coni- 

 ferous tree, from the 

 cold southern regions of 

 South /Ymerica. Intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Yeitch 

 a:idCo. (Fig. 36.) 



This promises to be a 

 rival of Araucaria imbri- 

 cata, and to be as hardy ; 

 for it comes from just 

 below the snow line of the 

 Andes of Patagonia, where 

 Mr. Lobb found it in the 

 state of a tree from 50 to 

 80 feet high. According to 

 the officers of the Beagle, 

 it is one of the trees called 



