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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

FART III.

which is recurved. When mature, the scales are thick, fleshy, rough, andopening lengthwise. The seeds are naked, ovoid, somewhat angular, reddishbrown, and containing a kernel of the same form, but white. The fruit re-mains on the tree during winter, and opens and sheds its seeds with the firstwarm weather of spring. It is a native of China and Japan ; and, accordingto Miller, it was first sent to Europe by the French missionaries. It has beenin cultivation in England since 1752, and is a more compact-growing andhandsomer species than the American arbor vitae. It is quite hardy in theclimate of London, where, in fine seasons, it ripens seeds. These are generallysown in pots immediately after they are gathered in autumn, in which case theplants come up the following summer; but, if the seeds are not sown tillspring, they frequently do not come up for a year. Layers generally requiretwo years to root sufficiently; and cuttings are rather more difficult tostrike than those of T. occidentalis. In a young state, the plants are some-what tender; but they become quite hardy when old, even in the climate ofEdinburgh. The largest trees of this species in the neighbourhood of Londonare at Syon, and are nearly 20 ft. in height; there are also large trees onboth sides of the road between London and Turnham Green.

Statistics. In the environs of London. At Mount Grove, Hampstead, 18 years planted, it is 14 ft.high, the diameter of the head 8 ft.; at Ham House, Essex, it is 25 ft. high, the diameter of thetrunk 1 ft. 6 in., and that of the head 23 ft. — South of London. In Surrey, at Farnham Castle, 50years old, it is 45 ft high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 4 in., and that of the head 30 ft.; at Clare-mont, it is 30 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of the head 15 ft.; at Nutfield, it is 24 ft.high, and the diameter of the head 17 ft. In Sussex, at Westdean, 11 years planted, it is 14 ft. high,the diameter of the trunk 8 in., and of the head 8 ft. In Bedfordshire, at Southill, 22 years planted,it is 25 ft. high. In Berkshire, at BearWood, 12 years planted, it is 15 ft. high. In Denbighshire, atLianbede Hall, 15 years planted, it is 21 ft. high. In Staffordshire, at Teddesley Park, 14 yearsplanted, it is 14 ft. high. In Warwickshire, at Coomb Abbey, 60 years planted, it is 31 ft. high. InWorcestershire, at Croome, 30 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. — In Scotland. In the environs ofEdinburgh, at Gosford House, 14 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. In Ayrshire, at Aucheneruive, 40years planted, it is 20 ft. high. In Perthshire, at Taymouth, it is 40 ft. high. In Stirlingshire, atCallendar Park, it is 23 ft. high. — In Ireland. In the environs of Dublin, in the Glasnevin Bota-nic Garden, 30 years planted, it is 15 ft. high ; at Cypress Grove, it is 15 ft. high. — In France. AtParis, in the Jardin des Plantes, 35 years planted, it is 36 ft. high ; at Sceaux, 10 years planted, it is20 ft. high. In the Botanic Garden at Toulon, 36 years planted, it is 29 ft. high ; at Nantes, in thenursery of M. Nerrieres, 40 years old, it is 29 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 8 in.; at Avranches,in the Botanic Garden, 40 years planted, it is 29 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 1 ft., and of thehead 16 ft. — In Hanover, in the Gottingen Botanic Garden, 20 years planted, it is from 8 ft. to10 f(. high. — In Austria, at Vienna, in the University Botanic Garden, 35 years planted, it is30 ft. high ; at Briick on the Loytlia, 40 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. — In Prussia, at Berlin, atSans Souci, 90 years planted, it is 20 ft. high ; in the Pfauen-Insel, 6 years planted, it is 10 ft. high. —In Sweden, in the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 10 ft. high. — In Italy, at Monza, 24 years planted,it is 20 ft. high.

Commercial Statistics. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, 1«. 6 d.each ; at Bollwyller, 1 franc; and at New York, 50 cents.

§ iii. Cyparissa.

5. T. cupressoi'des L. The Cypress-like, or African, Arbor Vitae.

Identification. Willd. Sp PI., 4. p. 510.; Lin. Mant., 125.; Thunb.

Prod., 110.; N. Du Ham., 3. p. 16. j Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5.p. 322.

Si/nonyme. T. aph^lla Burnt. Prodr., 27.

Engraving. Ouxfig. 2316. of the natural size.

Spec. Char.yfye. Branchlets round. Leaves imbri-cated in 4 rows, oblong, depressed, smooth.

Cones globose, somewhat 4-angled. ( Willd.) Anative of the Cape of Good Hope. Introducedinto Kew Gardens, by Dr. Roxburgh, in 1799.

Fig. 2316., of the natural size, is from a specimenof a young plant which bears the name of Thujacupressoides in some of the nurseries; hut, asnone of the plants exceed 2 ft. in height, and verylittle is known of their origin, the correctness ofthe application of the name may reasonably bedoubted.

1 6. T. pe'nsilis Lamb. The pensile Arbor Vita;.

Identification . St aunt. Embass., p. 436.; Lamb. Pin., 2., No. 63.