DECIDUOUS ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
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and I have never succeeded in obtaining shoots by wound- 
ing their surface, and covering them with earth. No cause 
can be assigned for their existence : they are peculiar to the 
Cypress, and begin to appear when it is twenty or twenty- 
five feet in height ; they are not made use of, except by 
the negroes for bee-hives.” 
“ The foliage is open, light, and of a fresh, agreeable tint ; 
each leaf is four or five inches long, and consists of two 
parallel rows of leaflets, upon a common stem. The leaflets 
are small, fine, and somewhat arching, with the convex side 
outwards. In the autumn, they change from a light green 
to a dull red, and are shed soon after.” 
“ The Cypress blooms in Carolina, about the first of 
February. The male and female flowers are borne separate- 
ly, by the same tree ; the first in flexible pendulous aments, 
and the second in bunches, scarcely apparent. The cones 
are about as large as the thumb, hard, round, of an uneven 
surface, and stored with small irregular ligneous seeds, 
containing a cylindrical kernel ; they are ripe in October, 
and retain their productive virtue for two years.”* 
Such is the account given of the Cypress in its native soils. 
In the middle states it is planted only as an ornamental tree ; 
and while in the south, its great abundance causes it to be 
neglected or disregarded as such, its rarity here allows us 
fully to appreciate its beauty. North of the 43° of latitude 
it will not probably stand the winter without protection ; but 
south of that, it will attain a good size. The finest planted 
specimen which we have seen, and one which is probably 
equal in grandeur to almost any in their native swamps, is 
growing in the Bartram Botanic Garden, near Philadelphia. 
N. A. Sylva, II. 332. 
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