Roman eyewitness Pliny the Younger described the stupefying, thundering arousal of a volcano thought to be all-spouted-out only to produce a strange and threatening sulfurous cloud in early afternoon : " . . . its appearance and shape resembling an umbrella pine tree with a very tall trunk rising high into the sky and then spreading out into branches.
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Henry Pochin s legacy to Bodnant was planting the garden s great conifers; the cedars on the Lily Terrace ( from Africa and Middle East ) and the Pinetum in the Dell which includes American and Asian conifers including Pseudotsuga menziesii ( Douglas Fir ) Pinus radiata, Sciadopitys verticella ( Japanese Umbrella Pine ), Chamaecyparis pisifera ( Japanese false cypress ), Sequoiadendron giganteum ( Giant Redwood ).
