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PLANT-LORE OF SHAKESPEARE 
in September, to show that it might be propagated by slips.”— 
Promptorium Pctrvulorum , app. 67. 
The Cypress is an ornamental evergreen, but stiff in its 
growth till it becomes of a good age; and for garden purposes 
the European plant is becoming replaced by the richer forms 
from Asia and North America, such as C. Lawsoniana , macro- 
ccirpa , Lambertiana , and others. 
