I/O WAYSIDE AND WOODLAND TREES. 
for the fact that in forest growth the lower branches are lost at 
an early age. 
In its native home the Lawson Cypress attains a height 
of between 120 and 150 feet, occasionally reaching 200 feet, 
with a base circumference of 40 feet. The thick brown 
bark splits into rounded scaly ridges. The short horizontal 
branches divide a good deal towards their leafy extremities, 
which are curved, and commonly drooping. The leaves are 
little evergreen scales, which overlap, and being closely pressed 
to the branchlet, completely clothe and hide it. They are bright 
dark-green in colour, and endure for three or four years. The 
male flowers are produced at the tips of short branchlets, formed 
