64 BULLETIN 272, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
PLANTING AND SOWING CYPRESS. 
The establishment of young stands by sowing or planting will 
probably always be of limited application in the case of cypress. 
On a small scale, however, where it is desired to devote wet or moder- 
ately moist lands to their highest form of timber production, the 
planting of cypress in the Eastern and Southern States will unques- 
tionably be practicable. Experiments and nursery practice seem 
fully to establish the adaptability of cypress and the success of the 
method. 
CYPRESS UNDER CULTIVATION. 
In many parks, lawns, and arboretums of both Europe and the 
United States cypress has proved to be a hardy and rapid growing 
tree. When grown in the open, its habit resembles that of eastern 
red cedar, but it is somewhat more cylindrical. On account of its 
light, feathery foliage and narrow pyramidal shape cypress is a tree of 
distinctive appearance and striking beauty. (See Pi. XII.) 
Commercially, cypress is being increasingly planted on account 
of its good rate of growth and the value of its wood. In the last 
few years 75,000 seedlings have been planted in Ohio under the 
general direction of State forestry organizations. The older cypress 
plantations in Ohio are reported by the State forester! as having 
made a satisfactory record in the production of timber. The poten- 
tial range for planting appears to reach as far north as the southern 
portions of New England, New York, and Michigan. Individual 
trees will grow somewhat farther north, but when young are sus- 
ceptible to injury by freezing. 
Cypress does not require, as is usually believed, heavy, wet, swamp 
soils. It does not thrive in hot, dry situations or in pure sand, 
but does well in ordinary loamy, calcareous, and clay soils, which 
as a class are retentive of moisture. The requirements of cypress 
call for the more favorable class of hardwood sites, including moist 
slope and bottom land, typical soil for such species as beech, maples, 
basswood, tulip poplar, catalpa, elm, oak, sycamore, and cotton- 
wood. ‘Trees in the District of Columbia are growing well near the. 
Potomac Flats (PI. XID and also on Meridian Hull, about 200 feet 
in local elevation above the river. Because of previous good results 
the city of Cincinnati in 1914 planted 40,000 cypress seedlings in 
forest stands on relatively high, well-drained ground. 
GROWTH OF PLANTED CYPRESS. 
The rate of growth of individual planted cypress trees is closely 
comparable to that of the more rapid hardwoods. Under cultivation 
trees grow from 18 to 24 feet in height in the first 10 years. The best 
1 Edmund Secrest, State Forest, Wooster, Ohio. 
