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feet, and is very beautiful. At Elizabethtown, it succeeds 
when sheltered. At Flushing, the extremities of the branches 
suffer in severe winters, and at Yorkville, near New York, 
it is considered hardy under favorable circumstances, as also 
at “Woodlawn,” N. J., the residence of Mr. Field, where 
there are specimens twenty-nine feet in circumference, though 
not proportionally high. In Ohio, it is killed to the ground in 
severe winters. This is another of those evergreens, which 
grown in tubs, ten to fifteen feet high, and planted (plunged) 
out in summer, would produce most agreeable effects in orna- 
mental grounds, with no care in winter beyond removing it to 
a cellar or cool green-house. 
C. Japonica viridis, C. Japonica lobbii , C. Japonica nana . — 
These three are only varieties of the one above described, and 
we presume no more hardy, unless it be Lobbii , introduced 
from the Dutch Botanic gardens at Batavia. C. nana, which 
is a mere dwarf-bush, always seems to suffer with us more from 
the sun in summer than the cold in winter. We have a fourth 
variety, received from France, called Pendula, rather more 
slender and pendulous than Japonica. 
CUNNINGHAMIA. 
Cunninghamia.—A small tree, native of Japan and China, 
named after its discoverer, Mr. Cunningham. There are but 
two varieties, of which C. Sinensis or C. lanceolata , is the one 
most generally cultivated in this country. In its general char- 
acter and appearance, it resembles very much Araucaria imbri- 
cata , with lance-like leaves, though lighter green. With us it 
stands generally better than the araucaria, and will make an 
admirable substitute for this tree, if it should prove hardy. 
At Baltimore, we have seen a plant six or eight feet high, 
and apparently quite vigorous. At Newport, it is also regarded 
as quite hardy, and a great accession. Specimens there are 
six feet high, and near Natchez, fifteen to eighteen feet, nearly 
half its full size, and always untouched by winter. At Flush- 
ing it stands about as well as the cryptomeria, and will proba- 
bly prove about as reliable as this tree ; as yet it is compara- 
tively new, and we have but few returns about it. 
C. glauca , the remaining variety, differs only in its leaves 
being silvery. 
