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Mexican Pines and others, have been introduced recently, and are 
thriving well on the western side of the lawn at Plantation House. 
Picea, Link. 
6S0. P. Webbiana, Loud. — Recently introduced from the Royal 
Gardens at Kew. — Hab. Nepal. 
Podocarpus, L’Her. 
681. P. elongata, L’Her. — The Cape Tew ; grows well and 
quickly to a fine timber tree. At Plantation it attains a large 
size, measuring nine feet in circumference, and rising thirty feet to 
the first brandies, the total height being from sixty to seventy feet. 
Another tree, near the old Fish Pond, measures round the trunk as 
much as eleven feet eight inches. It yields the timber known at 
the Cape of Good Hope as yellow-wood ; wild and very common. 
H. L. Alt. 3 to 4. — Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 
682. P. chinensis, Wall. — China Yew, said by Roxburgh to 
grow in the Island. — Hab. China. 
Sequoia, Endl. 
683. S. gigantea, Torr. — Wellingtonia ; recently introduced 
from the Royal Gardens at Kew. — Hah. N. America. 
Taxodium, Rich. 
684. T. disticlium, Rich. — Two fine trees, about forty feet 
high, grow in the valley near the old Fish Pond at Plantation. 
H. L. Alt. 3'2. Bears seeds, hut they do not appear to germinate. 
This plant is said to be nearly allied to a fossil tertiary species wdiich 
appears to have been spread over Europe during the Miocene epoch. 
— Hab. Southern United States and Mexico. 
Thuja, Linn. 
685. T. occidentalis, Linn.— Arbor Vitas ; grows to a small 
tree both on the high and low lands, but not abundantly. Bears 
seeds freely, but they do not germinate without cultivation. — Hab. 
N. America. 
