The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . pes of the truecypresses or ctipressiis of the botanists Our native swamp whitecedar, and some of the evergreen cypresses of California are classedunder the same botanical head. The American deciduous cypressis named by botanists, Taxodium ; and the new deciduous speciesfrom China are classed separately under the name class known as Japan cypresses are classed, botanically,under the title Rctinispora. EVERGREEN TREES AND S
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . pes of the truecypresses or ctipressiis of the botanists Our native swamp whitecedar, and some of the evergreen cypresses of California are classedunder the same botanical head. The American deciduous cypressis named by botanists, Taxodium ; and the new deciduous speciesfrom China are classed separately under the name class known as Japan cypresses are classed, botanically,under the title Rctinispora. EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 5C9 Fig. EVEKGREKN-WALK IN PAESONS NURSEEY, FLUSHING, L. I. The Common (British) Evergreen Cypress. Cupressiissempertnreus.—A tree with dark foliage and fastigiate habit, re-sembHng in mode of growth the Lombardy poj^lar, though notquite so slender. This tree, so generally grown throughout Englandand middle Europe, is found utterly unsuited to our middle seems to have given up hope of acclimating any of thenumerous English and Continental varieties. We shall, therefore,make no mention of them. The species which now give promise ofhardiness, in the middle and southern States at least, are the newvarieties from the Pacific slope. These are: the Lawson cypress,C. Lawso?iiana, and the Nootka Sound cypress, C. nootkaensis, moregenerally known by the botanical name, Thiiiopsis borealis. 570 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. The Lawson Cypress. Cupressus Lawsoniana.—This treewhen young looks like a cross between a hemlock and a thrifty redcedar, with a dash of arbor-vitai blood, but is m
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