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limber, but in many southern cities, particularly New 
Orleans, it will be found to enter into the composition of 
almost every building. 
In the nurseries, the Cypress is usually propagated from 
the seed ; and as it sends down strong roots, it should be 
transplanted where it is finally to grow before it attains too 
great a development. 
The European Cypress ( Cupressus sempervirens), a 
beautiful evergreen tree, shaped like a small Lombardy 
poplar, which is the principal ornament of the churchyards 
and cemeteries abroad, is unfortunately too tender to 
endure the winter in any of the states north of Virginia, 
South of that state, it may probably become naturalized, 
and serve to add to the catalogue of beautiful indigenous 
evergreen trees. 
From its dark and sombre tint, and perpetual verdure, it 
is peculiarly the emblem of grief : 
“ Binde you my brows with mourning Cyparesse, 
And palish twigs of deadlier poplar tree, 
Or if some sadder shades ye can devise, 
Those sadder shades vaile my light-loathing eyes.” 
Bp. Hall. 
The Larch Tree. Larix. 
Nat. Ord. Coniferse. Lin. Syst. Moncecia, Monadelphia. 
The Larch is a resinous, cone-bearing tree, belonging 
to the Pine family, but differing from that genus in the 
annual shedding of its leaves like other deciduous trees, 
fn Europe it is a native of the coldest parts of the Alps 
and Appenines ; and in America, is indigenous to the most 
