572 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRURS. 
strikingly in the brighter green of its foliage, and its far denser 
branchlets ; also in the leaves being narrower, much more angular, 
and sharper-pointed ; * * * it is also a tree of larger propor¬ 
tions in all respects.” It grows to the height of one hundred and 
fifty feet, with a trunk six feet in diameter. When growing singly, 
it assumes a columnar form, with long, slender, pendulous branches. 
It has not, we believe, yet been tested in the eastern States. 
The Chinese Weeping Deciduous Cypress. Glypto-strobus 
sinensis pendula (Taxodium. sinensis pendula ).—Though this be¬ 
longs to a species of the conifers , which are deciduous, they are in 
all other respects so allied in appearance 
with the evergreens, as usually to be classed 
with them. This variety in the neighbor¬ 
hood of New York is certainly the most 
beautiful and hardy of all the deciduous 
cypresses. Fig. 181 shows the form of the 
fine specimens in Parsons & Co.’s grounds 
at Flushing ; but no engraving can render 
the soft, downy tuftings of the foliage, or 
the warmth of its light green color. 
- “ Her sunny locks 
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece.” 
The tree in its whole appearance is so 
distinct from all the trees generally cul¬ 
tivated in this country, that it is certainly 
one of the most desirable novelties among trees. We have seen it 
only in autumn, at which time the weeping character of the foliage 
is not marked, and the outline is distinctly formal. The pendu¬ 
lousness is only in the curl and droop of the young foliage, the 
branches radiating quite rigidly. It is known in China as the 
water pine, and found principally in the maritime districts. It is 
undoubtedly hardy in the neighborhood of New York and Phila¬ 
delphia, and at Sargent’s place at Fishkill, on the Hudson. 
Whether it will succeed as well in the same latitude in the in¬ 
terior is doubtful; but that it is hardy enough to plant in most of 
the States, with a little protection, there is good reason to believe. 
Fig. i 8 i . 
