EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS, 
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Fig. i8o. 
The Common (British) Evergreen Cypress. Cupressus 
sempervirens . — A tree with dark foliage and fastigiate habit, re- 
sembling in mode of growth the Lombardy poplar, though not 
quite so slender. This tree, so generally grown throughout England 
and middle Europe, is found utterly unsuited to our middle States. 
Sargent seems to have given up hope of acclimating any of the 
numerous English and Continental varieties. We shall, therefore, 
make no mention of them. The species which now give promise of 
hardiness, in the middle and southern States at least, are the new 
varieties from the Pacific slope. These are : the Lawson cypress, 
C. Lawsoniafia, and the Nootka Sound cypress, C. ?iootkaensis^ more 
generally known by the botanical name, Thiiiopsis borealis. 
