Lawson cypress

American  

noun

1. Port Orford cedar.

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Etymology

Origin of Lawson cypress

First recorded in 1855–60; after Lawson and Son, a firm of Edinburgh nurserymen, who cultivated the tree from seeds collected in America in 1854

Example Sentences

Against buildings, Monterey cypress; banked by Lawson cypress in front and between these, spruces and Spanish fir.

From The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by Barry, John D. (John Daniel)

Against the dull buff of the palace walls are banked Monterey cypress and Lawson cypress, with a heavy undergrowth of fir and spruce.

From The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Mullgardt, Louis Christian