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green trees, and one deciduous kind; all of the coni¬ 
ferous or cone-bearing tribe, principally for ornamen¬ 
tal plantations, and fome alio to introduce in the fo- 
reft- tree collection; grow to a confiderable lofty fta- 
ture, moftly very branchy quite from the bottom, in 
a regular, pyramidal growth; fome with upright, 
others in fpreading branches, very clofely fet with 
minute, imbricated, and fpreading leaves; and fmall 
male and female flowers apart on the fame tree; the 
males in oval amentums, and the females in roundilh, 
fcaly cones, no corolla or petals; and in the males no 
ftamina, but feveral united anthera; in the female 
florets, a very (hort ftyle; and the conical female heads 
become fmall, roundifh, fcaly cones, furnifhed with 
angular feeds, involved in the fcales, ripe late in 
autumn; and by which the trees are commonly 
propagated, fowed in the fpring, in beds of light 
earth. 
.The Species of hardy CUPRESSUS are, 
1. Cupressus fempervirens, Ever-green Common 
Cyprefs Tree. 
A largifh, ever-green tree, growing thirty to forty 
feet high, or more—the branches quadrangular; leaves 
(fmall, dark green) imbricated or lying over one ano¬ 
ther, and ereft.—Native of Creta and other parts of 
the Levant. (Gravelly, or any dry fituation.) 
Varieties .—Upright Common Cyprefs Tree—hav¬ 
ing ereCt branches; growing thirty, to 
forty or fifty feet high. 
Horizontal or Spreading Cyprefs Tree— 
the branches fpreading horizontally; 
growing twenty to thirty feet high. 
Portugal Cyprefs Tree, or Cedar of 
Goa—the branches irregular-fpreading; 
growing twenty to twenty-five feet high. 
2 . Cupressus Thyoides — (Thyoides, or Arbor-vitas- 
like) Dwarf Cyprefs, or White Cedar. 
A fmall, ever-green tree, twelve to fifteen feet higli; 
.—the branches two-edged; leaves (fmall, dark green) 
imbricated or lying over one another; and fmall, blue, 
berry-like cones.—Native of Canada. ( Moifijh or 
any common foil.) 
3. Cupressus dificha, Diflichous-leaved, or deci¬ 
duous Cyprefs. 
A large, deciduous tree, growing forty or fifty feet 
high—the leaves {fmall, light green, pinnated-like ) 
placed diftichous or two-ranked, and fpreading.—Na¬ 
tive of Virginia and Carolina. {Moijl or any common 
foil.) 
Moll: of thefe fpecies and varieties of Cyprefs are 
fuperbly-beautiful trees in their clofe, branchy, pyra- 
midical growth, clofely garniihcd with very fmall 
leaves, imbricated or lying over one another in the 
ever-green kinds, in the other fpreading and two- 
ranked on the branches; and in all of which, are de- 
flrable ornaments for beautifying pleafure-groundplan- 
tations, principal flirubberies, and other compart¬ 
ments ; and to difpofe in ranges, in forming grand 
walks, groves, &c. likewife to plant in clumps and 
Angle ftandards, upon capacious lawns and other open 
compartments of grafs ground; are alfo peculiarly 
adapted to adorn avenue walks, leading to any orna¬ 
mental garden edifices, as temples, grottos, &c. and 
the larger tree kinds, both of the ever-green and de¬ 
ciduous fpecies, are proper to afiemble in forefl-tree 
plantations, as the timber is of the utmoft value for 
its great diuturnity and aromatic property; more par¬ 
ticularly the feveral varieties of the CupreffusJ'emper-vi- 
rens ; and the trees in general, in their growing flate, 
impart a very fragrant, balfamic odour, efteemed ex¬ 
ceedingly falutiferous; fo that thefe curious trees de¬ 
mand admittance in all principal plantation diflriCts, 
both for ornament and utility. 
They are all fufiiciently hardy to grow in any fitua¬ 
tion and common foil, in general with other trees, or 
where they may be required, in larger or fmaller fup- 
plies, for the above-mentioned occafions of planting ; 
which may be performed either principally in autumn, 
in October or November, or in the fpring, February 
or March, to the beginning or middle of April, efpe- 
cially the ever-green kinds. 
_ Thefe trees, in their native places of growth, in 
the Levant and America, rife to a confiderable altitude 
or height, and grow to a very large fubftance in the 
trunk, for principal timber trees, efpecially the firfl: 
and third fpecies; and of which there are trees of 
a large fize in many of our Briti/h gardens, in which 
all the forts thrive abundantly well, and effect a Angu¬ 
larly fine variety, and fuperbly ornamental appear¬ 
ance in their mode of growth and clofely-placed foli¬ 
age ; the flowers not very confpicuous, are produced 
in the fpring at the fldes of the young branches, irt 
male and female amentums and heads, which, in the 
latter, are fucceeded by the fmall feed-cones: ripen¬ 
ing in the end of autumn and beginning of winter, or, 
when not ripening in fufficient abundance, are obtain¬ 
ed, from abroad, by the feedfmen, for fowing in the 
fpring. 
All the forts are raifed abundantly in the public nur- 
feries, of a proper growth, of two or three, to four, 
five or fix feet, or more, for planting; and where they 
may be obtained, in the proper feafons of autumn and 
fpring, for flirubberies, and other plantations in which 
they are intended. 
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