. 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. nd partial shelter arenecessities to its successful cultivation. L. DECURRENS, Torrcy. (Synonyms: ThuyaCraigiana, Murray ; Thuya gigantea, of gardens.)Mountains of North-Western America. 1853.—As seen in this country, where it has long beenconfused with Thuya gigantea, this is of densecolumnar habit, with short frondose branches, anddeep green foliage, which colour is retained through-out the winter.
. 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. nd partial shelter arenecessities to its successful cultivation. L. DECURRENS, Torrcy. (Synonyms: ThuyaCraigiana, Murray ; Thuya gigantea, of gardens.)Mountains of North-Western America. 1853.—As seen in this country, where it has long beenconfused with Thuya gigantea, this is of densecolumnar habit, with short frondose branches, anddeep green foliage, which colour is retained through-out the winter. Cones erect, oblong, i inch inlength, and composed of usually two pairs ofscales. The stem is usually carrot-shaped in thiscountry, and the bark a rich brown, that gleamsout here and there between the tiers of thicklymatted branches. The outline of the tree israther stiff and columnar for ornamental planting ;and though the timber is valuable, the rate ofgrowth is too slow to allow of its being cultivatedfor profitable purposes in this country. It suc-ceeds best on deep moist loams, the foliagebeing paler and the lower branches apt to die offwhen the tree is growing in sandy or gravelly. z^^^^ ?^^Ka^^^^r/-;, LIBOCEDRUS DECURREXS AT ORTOX LOXGUEVILLE. HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES 103 soils. There is a variety named L. decurrensglauca. L. DoNiANA, Endlicher. (Synonym: ThuyaDoniana, Hooker,) New Zealand. 1848.—Thoughusually described as tender, there are, in certainparts of the country, well-furnished and beauti-ful specimens of this tree to be seen. In thenorth of Ireland it forms a handsome specimen,with foliage of the richest description ; whilein southern and especially western England,I have seen well-grown plants. It presents aperfect pyramid of flattened, fern-hke branchlets,thickly covered with beautiful foliage of a deep,unchanging green, and with little or no silverymarkings on the under It is readily dis-tinguished from L, chilensis by the more closelyarranged le
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