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The name of Peter Lawson (d. 1820) and his son Charles (1794–1873), partners in the firm of Lawson and Son, Edinburgh nurserymen, used attrib. or in the possessive in Lawson('s) cypress to designate Chamæcyparis lawsoniana, a conifer from Oregon first introduced to cultivation by them after seeds had been collected in 1854 by Andrew Murray (1812–78), Scottish botanist, who named the tree after the Lawsons.
1858G. Gordon Pinetum 62 Cupressus Lawsoniana, Murray. Messrs Lawson's Cypress... A large graceful tree, growing 100 feet high, and two feet in diameter..with the branches at first curved upwards..and towards the ends hanging down like an ostrich feather. 1866Curtis's Bot. Mag. XCII. 5581 The Lawson Cypress..has for the last few years been a great favourite in our gardens and shrubberies. 1914L. H. Bailey Stand. Cycl. Hort. II. 730/2 Lawson's Cypress..is one of the most beautiful conifers and very variable, about 80 garden forms being cultivated in European nurseries. 1923Dallimore & Jackson Handbk. Coniferæ 200 The extraordinary variability of the Lawson cypress under cultivation has resulted in a large number of forms being given varietal names. 1957M. Hadfield Brit. Trees 120 The Lawson Cypress has a very limited natural distribution..restricted to a narrow belt on the Pacific coast of the United States. 1970C. Lloyd Well-Tempered Garden iii. 215 One or other form of Lawson's cypress will give you a dense hedge. 1974Country Life 12 Dec. 1855/2 A golden Lawson cypress..is a narrow column of bright gold. |