THE NEWER EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 531 
color, alternately two round , and nearly all the inner side quite 
straight ; leaves in alternately opposite pairs, closely imbricated, 
those on the branchlets being much shorter, more rounded, and 
furnished with a short spiny point ; besides which, one forms a 
tree of one hundred and forty, while the other (Thu. Menziesn) 
only attains an altitude of forty feet. 
We are not yet able to say what either of these trees will 
do in this country. The real gigantea is said to be hardy, and 
the false not. At Elizabethtown, N. J., Mr. Reid writes us, 
“ The true one grows rapidly, and will no doubt prove hardy.” 
At Augusta it stands perfectly well. At Flushing, not quite 
hardy. These are the only reports we have, and our own plants 
are out for the first time. 
Thu. macrocarpa. — This is a variety we received, if we mis- 
take not, several years since, from Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, 
of Rochester, and about which we can find no mention in any 
of the books, nor does it seem to exist in any of the foreign 
Pinetums, or in any nurserymen or collectors’ catalogues. It 
resembles so much the Thu. gigantea , that we are inclined 
to think it is this variety under a different name. We have 
never tried it out, as we could not find anything of its charac- 
ter or habits under this name. 
Thu. variegata (Variegated arbor vitas). — Only a golden- 
striped variety of our common arbor vitae, but pretty and dis- 
tinctive, and perfectly hardy. 
Thu. aurea Americana (American Golden arbor vitae). — Is 
an exceedingly pretty and well-marked seedling, found acci- 
dentally in a nursery row by our neighbor, Mr. Daniel Brinck- 
enhoff, and named by us as above. The new growth is very 
distinctly yellow, and the old foilage, which is a bright clear 
green, tones off so gradually and delicately into the golden 
hue of the new, as to produce a most pleasing little tree, and 
perfectly hardy. 
Thu. Hoveyi (Hovey’s arbor vitas). — Another American 
seedling not yet introduced, but which is described to us by 
Messrs. Hovey (in whose nursery, near Boston, it was found) 
as a seedling of Occidentalis, as hardy as an oak, having never 
lost a limb in the severe winters of ’55 and ’56. Very nearly of 
the same habit as Aurea, compact and upright branches; leaves 
