. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. stinct variety, butunfortunately, one that cannot be relied uponto retain its colour, the beautiful golden yellowof the branch-tips of the juvenile plants graduallygiving way with advancing age. I have seenseveral very beautiful specimens of this goldenWellingtonia, and if the character was constantthe tree would be well worth cultivation for purelyornamental purposes. The best form I have seenwas se
. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. stinct variety, butunfortunately, one that cannot be relied uponto retain its colour, the beautiful golden yellowof the branch-tips of the juvenile plants graduallygiving way with advancing age. I have seenseveral very beautiful specimens of this goldenWellingtonia, and if the character was constantthe tree would be well worth cultivation for purelyornamental purposes. The best form I have seenwas sent to me by Mr. Baylor Hartland, fromCork. S. GIGANTEA PENDULA.—This cauuot be de-scribed as ornamental, at least when of large size,though young specimens are sufficiently curiousand distinct to warrant more than a passingnotice. As seen from a distance against the sky-line, old trees have a very singular appearance,the long, pendulous, and irregularly producedbranches imparting an outline such as one rarelysees, unless associated with an isolated specimenthat has been stranded on an exposed mountainside. Young trees are far more shapely andpleasing in outline, and though they cannot be. SEQUOIA GIGAXTEA AT WOBURN. HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES 169 described as ornamental, yet they are so distinctthat their presence in the park or garden is quitedesirable. In all the specimens I examined thebranches spring out directly at right angles to themain stem for a distance of about 3 inches, thenturn abruptly downwards parallel and close tothe stem for, in many instances, a length of 4 foliage is quite normal, and the cones are i|inches long, by fully i inch wide, and on a stoutfoot-stalk, hardly three-quarters of an inch specimen about 30 feet in height may be seenat Berkhampstead, in Herts. S. SEMPERViRENS, EndUckeY. The Redwoodof California. (Synonym : Taxodium semper-virens, Lambert,) 1846.—A noble tree that, whensuitably placed, produces a large quantity ofvaluable t
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