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riches to the British timber grower. In spite of this failure, 
there are to be seen in many parts of these islands fine 
young Deodars of forty or fifty years, and from fifty to seventy 
feet in height. 
There is no necessity for repeating the particulars already 
given respecting the Cedar of Lebanon, and which apply to the 
Deodar with such modifications as are indicated in the first 
paragraph above. Specimens grown where they have sufficient 
space for spreading out their long arms, retain their branches to 
the base of the trunk, and if these are cut off they can reproduce 
them. Several nursery varieties — with golden (aurea), silvery 
{argetited), or more intense green {viridis) foliage than the type 
— have appeared as a result of European cultivation. 
Lawson’s Cypress {Cupressics lawsoniana). 
Lawson’s Cypress belongs to that section of Conifers which 
includes the Junipers and Thuias, and is a representative of the 
North American Sylva. It is a native of South Oregon and 
North California, where it is believed to have been first discovered 
by Jeffrey, about 1852. Two years later seeds were received by 
Messrs. Lawson, the Edinburgh nurserymen, from Mr. William 
Murray, and from these seeds were raised the first young trees 
of this species sent out by the firm. The name was bestowed 
in honour of Mr. Charles Lawson, the then head of the firm, 
and by this name it is generally known in Europe, but in the 
United States it is the Port Orford Cypress. At PortOrford, on 
the Oregon coast, according to Sargent, “ it forms one of the 
most prolific and beautiful coniferous forests of the continent, 
unsurpassed in the variety and luxuriance of its undergrowth 
of Rhododendrons, Vacciniums, Raspberries, Buckthorns, and 
Ferns,” and any one who has seen well-grown specimens in the 
pleasure-grounds of this country can easily realize something of 
the beauty of such a forest, though allowance has to be made 
