PINETUM DANICUM. 



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full-grown Cedar of Lebanon, which it closely resembles when seen at 

 a distance " ("Pinetum Britannicum "), 



Three plants were put out of doors for trial in Denmark. In the 

 long and hard winter of 1890-91 all the plants suffered, although 

 covered either with a mat of straw or with spruce branches ; two plants 

 died, the one left is now growing well. 



C. sempervirens, L. Sp. PI. 1422 ; Rich. Conif. t. 9. 



Habitat. — Western Asia, Syria, Persia, the Himalayas, and in 

 Southern Europe. 



Introduced into Northern and Western Europe about 1550. 



C. s. fastigiata, D. C. Fl. Franc, v. 336. Cnpressus fmrnina, 

 Csesalp. de Plant, lib. iii. cap. 55, p. 134. Cupressus sempervirens, 

 L. I.e. Cupressus sempervirens pyramidalis, hort. Cupressus pyra- 

 midalis, Targ. Tozz. Obs. Bot. dec. 3-5, p. 53. Cupressus conoidea, 

 Spad. Xilogr. i. 189. 



C. s. horizontalis, Mill. Diet. n. 2. Cupressus sempervirens /3, 

 L. Sp. PI. 1422. Cupressus mas, Csesalp. I.e. Cupressus patula, 

 Spad, Xilogr. i. 193. Cupressus sempervirens horizontalis, Gord. Pinet. 

 68. Cupressus expansa, Targ. Tozz. Obs. Bot. dec. 3-5, 53. Cupressus 

 orientalis, hort. Cupressus Tournefortii, hort. 



Habitat. — The Mediterranean region (where it may be only in- 

 troduced), especially the Levant and the Greek Archipelago ; also 

 westward as far as Persia and the Himalayas. Introduced into 

 England prior to 1548, in which year it is mentioned by Turner in 

 his " Names of Herbes," but much earlier into the South of Europe. 



Both forms are wintered indoors. 



This Cypress tree is said to produce timber, in its native country, 

 of extraordinary durability. It appears that the doors of St. Peter's 

 Church at Rome were made from the wood of this tree, and they are 

 said to have lasted eleven hundred years. It was also much used by 

 the Egyptians for the manufacture of their mummy-cases. Frequent 

 allusions are likewise made to it in Holy Writ. 



C. torulosa, Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 55 ; Lamb. Pinet. ed. 2, 

 113 ; Loud. Arbor, iv. 2478, f. 2329-31, and Encycl. of Trees, 1076, 

 f. 1990-2001 ; HofFm. Bot. Zeit. 1846, 185 ; Forb. Pinet. Wob. 189 ; 

 Fl. Serr. vii. 192 {eum ie.) ; Paxt. Flow. Gard. i. 167, f. 105; 

 Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. xi. 329 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 57 ; Lindl. and 

 Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 206 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 19 ; Carr. Man. 

 des PI. iv. 325 ; Tr. G^n. Conif. 118, and ed. 2, 150, 151 ; Gord. 

 Pinet. 69 (excl. syn. Cashmeriana). Juniperus nepalensis, Loud. 

 Encycl. of Trees, 1118. Cupressus torulosa, Don. Cupressus pendula, 

 Griffith ex Gord. Pinet. 69. Cupressus nepalensis. Loud. Encycl. of 

 Trees, 1118. Cupressus himalayensis, hort. Cupressus Drummondii, 

 hort. Cupressus eashmeriensis, hort. Cupressus torulosa elegans, hort. 

 aliq. Cupressus Smithiana, hort. 



