iU THE GARDENER. [March 



Orientalis. This lovely chvarf shrub has an almost completely 

 globular habit of growth, the branches so abundant and so dense as 

 to suggest the idea of solidity. In spring and early summer the 

 young branchlets have a most brilliant golden hue, gradually changing 

 as they become matured to a light green ; the effect of the plant as a 

 single specimen on a small lawn, as a centre for a flower-garden figure, 

 or in front of clumps of the larger-growing species, is striking in the 

 extreme. Glohosa, with the peculiar compact globular style of growth, 

 but with light green instead of golden branchlets, is a fine com- 

 panion plant to Aurea, with -which it makes a pleasing contrast : 

 Compada is a very elegant, sharply conical dwarf bush, with abun- 

 dance of branches densely clothing the stem from the ground upwards : 

 Elegantissima has the compact columnar form of the species, and in 

 summer its green colour ; it changes, however, in winter to a bright 

 reddish brown, the young branchlets in spring being tipped with gold : 

 JSe?njje)-'aurescens is a new and very interesting form of Continental 

 origin, resembling the preceding in general appearance, but with a 

 finer golden variegation, which it retains with more or less brilliancy 

 all over the year ; though as yet comparatively little known here, this 

 pretty plant will doubtless soon be widely distributed : Freneloides or 

 gracilis is another singularly beautiful and distinct variety, found first 

 on mountains in Northern India, and, like the species, of an erect, com- 

 pact habit of growth, but much more slender in all its parts ; it is very 

 distinct, quite hardy, and deservedly very popular : Pyramidalls is 

 a distinct and handsome form, with more robust branches, denser 

 branchlets, and a more compressed columnar style of growth than the 

 species, and makes a superb lawn specimen. 



B. Filiformis or Pendula {the Thread-hrt inch eel ArhorvitcB) is found 

 wild in high mountain valleys in Japan, particularly on the Hakone 

 range, forming a bush varying in height according to soil and situation 

 from ten to twenty feet. From its handsome appearance, and freeness 

 of growth, it is highly valued and extensively cultivated in Japan and 

 all over China as an ornamental shrub. 



It was first introduced into British gardens early in the present 

 century, and, though very properly classed among hardy Conifers, it 

 will only succeed in well-sheltered localities. A rich, deep, loamy soil, 

 rather light than heavy, with the subsoil either naturally dry and 

 porous, or thoroughly drained, is also an essential condition to its well- 

 being, and must be supplied if a vigorous, healthy specimen is desired. 



In favourable circumstances this curious and interesting plant 

 forms a straight-stemmed, bushy-headed shrub or miniature tree, with 

 ]ong whip-cord-like pendant branches, rather sparingly clothed with 

 small scak-like leaves clinging close to the stem ; the branchlets are 



