. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 237 of years. As usually seen in cultivation, it is a handsome narrow-pyramidal tree clothed to the ground with short and slender upcurved branches, but in mature specimens the trunk is clear of limbs up to 80 to 200 feet. It is the most massive of all trees, although exceeded Ln girth by a few others, notably the African baobab. In nature it reproduces only by seeds and does not make stump-sprou
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 237 of years. As usually seen in cultivation, it is a handsome narrow-pyramidal tree clothed to the ground with short and slender upcurved branches, but in mature specimens the trunk is clear of limbs up to 80 to 200 feet. It is the most massive of all trees, although exceeded Ln girth by a few others, notably the African baobab. In nature it reproduces only by seeds and does not make stump-sprouts as the preceding species. Var. pendula, Lav. Weeping Giant Sequoia. A form in which the branches are strongly recurved, closely covermg the stem and producing u narrow cylindric effect similar to that of Italian cA'press. There is a form with bluish foliage, var. glauca, Otto, Blue Giant Sequoia, and a form with yellow foliage, var. aurea, Nichols; also insig- nificant variegated forms. 14. TAIWANIA, Hayata. TAIWANIA Evergreen tree: leaves dimorphic, alternate, subulate, falcate, 4-angled. or on fruiting branches scale-like, imbricate, incurved: scales of pistillate flowers with 2 reversed ovules: cones terminal, subglobose, with many spirally arranged imbricate scales subtended by minute bracts; scales obovate, cuneate at base, mucronate, thin, each with 2 narrowly winged seeds; cotyledons 2. (Name from Taiwan, the Chinese name of Formosa.)— One species in Formosa and western China. T. cryptomerioides, Hayata. Fig. 58. Tree to 200 feet high with a tall clean trunk sometimes 30 feet in girth and clean to the height of 100 or 150 feet, with short branches forming a small crown; young plants with ascending branches and pendulous branchlets: leaves of sterile branches linear-subu- late, pungent, incurved-falcate, keeled on the ventral and dorsal side, about 3^ inch long, those of fertile branches tri- angular, imbricate, obtusish 58. Taiwania cryptomerioides. Fruiting branch
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