Identifier: veitchsmanualof00kent (find matches)
Title: Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kent, Adolphus Henry Veitch, James Herbert, 1868-1907 James Veitch & Sons
Subjects: Conifers Conifers
Publisher: Chelsea : J. Veitch
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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chtige Leliensbaum Itah Cipresso a grosso frutto. var.—Crippsii. A so-called plumose form, the leaves instead of being appressedare more or less spreading ; the branchlets shorter, more rigid, with thetips of all the youngest growths light yellow. var.—lutea. Also a plumose form with the whole of the current .seasonsgrowths light yellow which changes to the normal green of the speciesin the second year. The habitat of Cupressus inavtvniriia i.s extremely restricted ; it isknown to grow spontaneously only on a small area south of 216 VARIETIES OF CUPRESSUS MACKOCARPA. Monterey in California. The trees occur in small groups or solitaryin a narrow belt about two miles long and scarcely more thantwo liun(hed yards wide, extending along the coast from CypressPoint southwards to Carmel )>ay, mingling gradually with Pinusnulicda inland. Tliis very restricted lialiitat is asciilKMl to tlio gradual drying of th<Califoriiiau cliniatc and to the direct action of forest fires Avhich are
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Fi^. m. Ulfl Cypresses fCitpressns Mwsrocurpaj near Monterey, Soutli California.(From the (ku-deticrs Chrnnicle.) almost of animal occui-reiicc towards the end of the hot dry siiiiniiersof South California. ()n(? had forest tire would sweep away everyexisting Cypress tree in the grove. Few seedlings are to be seen ;animals are allowed to lirowse at will in the gi-ove and destroy all.seedlings as they spring Tip, and by imi)overishiiig the soil ha.sten thedecay of the older trees.* Here is portrayed a condition of things thatclearly forebode the extinction of the tree in its native habitat, but.such a cata.strophe would be l)iit an c)iisodr in its liistory, and would • Oardeii and Foicst, VII. (1894). ).. 241. fllHKSSrS XOOTKAIKNSIS. 217 1)y 11(1 iiieans result in tlic fate wliicli threatens its near neinhlinnr,Ahies hracteafa. Cupressua marrorarj^ia has l)oen ))lante(l in tliousantlstlirdu^hont tlie Iaritic States, in the warmer parts of Euriiiie and evenin Australia, and ))ro(luees

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