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that of Britain. I have seen perfect specimens in the neighbour- 

 hood of Tours and in other parts of Western France, also about 

 the Lake of Geneva, &o. 



CONIFEES SUITABLE FOR WeT GeOUNDS. 



Most of the trees here mentioned grow naturally in swampy 

 places or along the borders of streams ; most of them, it is true, 

 thrive perfectly in cultivation under widely different conditions, 

 and their names have been mentioned under some of the headings 

 already given. This list could doubtless be greatly extended. 

 First and foremost is the deciduous Cypress, of which the finest 

 specimens I have seen are in the grounds of Syon House, the 

 residence of the Duke of Northumberland, an ardent lover of 

 trees. One of the many fine deciduous Cypresses in Syon Park 

 has developed numbers of the characteristic knees which form 

 so striking a feature of the species in its wild habitats. 



Thuya occidentalis. — The garden varieties of this tree would 

 probably also succeed as wet-ground plants. 



ChamcBcyjoaris sjpliceroidea, the White Cedar of the eastern 

 , United States. In a wild state this always occurs in deep cold 

 swamps. The interesting and pretty garden forms of this are no 

 doubt equally as suitable as the type for margins of water, &c. 

 It may perhaps sound strange to some to be told that the so- 

 called Betinospora leptoclada is a form of the American White 

 Cedar, but so it is. 



In Veitch's Manual of the Coniferse," an extremely useful 

 book, to which I am indebted for much valuable information, the 

 Red Cedar {Junijperus virginiana) and three of its varieties are 

 recommended for planting in proximity to ornamental water, 

 as are also Junijperus recurva and its variety densa. Taxodium 

 distichum pendulum, formerly known under the name of 

 Glyptostrohus pendulus, and at one time believed to be a Chinese 

 tree, should, like the common deciduous Cypress, be planted 

 near water where it is possible to do so. 



Pinus contorta grows naturally in wet sandy soil, but under 

 cultivation it also thrives on a dry, hungry gravel. 



Pinus rigida, the Pitch Pine, also grows in the driest and 

 most barren sandy soil or in deep swamps ; this species is inter- 

 esting on account of the numbers of adventitious buds which are 

 produced on the stem and larger branches, giving the tree an 



