The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . ront ones convex, furnished with a specimens of Librocedrus decurrens, now before me, agree with this. Thd^ja gigantea of several collections is the Thuja Men-ziesu of Doug-las, adopted by Carriere with the followingdescription:— Branches straight; branchlets compressed, short, straightlyimbricated, destitute of glands ; cones small, oval, attenuatedtowards both ends. The specimen of Thuja gigantea now before me agrees withVOL. XXIV.—NO. X. 37 458 THE MAGAZINE OP HORTICULTUEE. this de
The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . ront ones convex, furnished with a specimens of Librocedrus decurrens, now before me, agree with this. Thd^ja gigantea of several collections is the Thuja Men-ziesu of Doug-las, adopted by Carriere with the followingdescription:— Branches straight; branchlets compressed, short, straightlyimbricated, destitute of glands ; cones small, oval, attenuatedtowards both ends. The specimen of Thuja gigantea now before me agrees withVOL. XXIV.—NO. X. 37 458 THE MAGAZINE OP HORTICULTUEE. this description, also adopted by Sir W. Hooker. In habitand aspect it is quite distinct from the Librocedrus decurrens,though the botanical characters may appear somewhat distinctness of these two plants is rendered still morecertain from the fact that a plant of our Librocedrus decur-rens, (Th. gigantea of Nuttall), planted in the open ground,survived last winter without injury; while a plant of Thujagig4ntea (Th. Menziesii of Douglas) was entirely killed withina few feet of the 19. YOUNG BRANCH AND CONE OF THuVa GIGAnTEA, (nUTT.) As many plants of our rare California evergreens are annu-ally exported to Europe, it is important that the identity ofthese noble Arbor Vitaes should be clearly established. Anotherwell known evergreen is still very imperfectly described andidentified ; I mean The Siberian Arbor Vit£e, called by some Waredna, andalso Th. sib^rica, a nurserymans name only. Relying onyour anxiety to have matters of this kind made clear to thehorticulturists of the country, your Magazine being now theonly botanical medium, I am yours respectfully, R. R. S. OCTOBER. 459 Nothing is more important in the introduction of the newConifcrie, than that they should be correctly named; espe-cially when there is such a difference in them as in the twonow under notice, one of which is hcu-dy and the other tender;and we are gratified at being enabled thus early, w
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