THE NEWER EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
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yew, but not so fine a color. We have no report about it in this 
country, and presume it will, at the North, at least, have to be 
grown in tubs, though we have a specimen out this winter. 
Sequoia sempervirens. California Red Wood. 
Better known here as Taxodium sempervirens. Found in the 
noi^hwest part of North America, forming a majestic tree two 
hundred to three hundred feet high, and often confounded with 
Washingtonia gigantea, quite a different thing ; the foliage of 
the Sequoia being flat, two-rowed, and dark green, while that of 
Washingtonia is needle-shaped, spirally alternate, and on the 
branchlets very close and regularly imbricated like an Arbor 
vitae, besides being a light or yellowish green. The two varie- 
ties are probably the most gigantic evergreens in the world. 
There is a slab of the wood of the Sequoia at St. Petersburg!!, 
measuring fifteen feet in diameter, and having one thousand 
and eight annual rings to mark its age. 
We have tried it many winters, but with hardly any success. 
It grows too rapidly and too late in the autumn to ripen off its 
wood, and almost always with us gets killed back to the snow- 
line, though generally shooting up again the next spring to 
meet a similar fate the succeeding winter. We have no returns 
about this tree other than tender, except from Washington, 
where a specimen, six feet high, planted by Mr. Downing, in 
1852, is growing beautifully though slightly injured in ’55-6. 
There is no reason why, in our Southern States, it should not 
succeed perfectly. 
Taxodium distichum. Deciduous Cypress. 
Syn. Cupressus Virginiana, &c., &c. 
Though not an evergreen, yet this valuable genus is closely 
allied to coniferous trees, and is well known by all planters as 
the Southern or Swamp cypress, found along the banks of 
rivers and swamps in vast quantities ; in Georgia, Carolina, 
Florida, and all the Southern States, it reaches the height of 
one hundred and twenty feet. It is perfectly hardy at the 
