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and spreading in every direction with a marvellous profusion 
into a perfect circle. It is unquestionably hardy all over the 
colder portion, at least, of the United States. 
Pseudo-larix koemferi. Golden or Chinese Larch. 
This properly belongs to the deciduous class of trees ; though 
when first sent to England by Mr. Fortune, 
s n n ' it was supposed to be a fir, and Mr. Lambert 
Abies kcemferi. . . . 
Pinus do. classed it among the pines. It is still very 
rare and very expensive ; plants only two 
inches high costing seven dollars in England. We know of but 
one other specimen in this country, besides our own, which was 
too small to venture out this winter, though we intend doing so 
next. It will, no doubt, prove hardy, coming as it does from 
the northern provinces of China. The leaves are a beautiful 
bright green, when young, but before autumn assume a fine 
golden yellow. There being no specimens in England over a 
foot high, we have no further description of this tree. 
Libocedrus. Incense Cedar. 
This exquisite genus (for all the varieties are alike beautiful) 
is another of Mr. Endlicher’s introductions from Chili and New 
Zealand. The name is derived from libanos , incense, and 
cedrus , the cedar. It is found upon the Andes of Chili, where 
it grows to the height of sixty to eighty feet, and bears so close 
a resemblance to the arbor vitae, as, by many, to be classed with 
this tree, having the same pyramidal habit, thickly clothed with 
beautifully delicate, glaucous and light green imbricated leaves 
from its very base. 
There are but four varieties, three of which have been im- 
ported, by collectors of evergreens, into this country, viz. : 
Chiliensis , Doniana and decurrens , of which the first and last 
only approach to some hope of being acclimatized. 
L. Chilunsis, we have had several years. Our oldest plant 
survived three winters on an open lawn, protected simply by 
