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handsomest of these forms is <7. oh/u.sa 

 nana, a compact, pyramidal, slow- 

 growing plant. The largest specimen 

 In the collection Is now about eight 

 feet tall. Other forms of C. obtusa are 

 compact mats which show little in- 

 dication of growing more than a few 

 inches high. In the collection there 

 are among others dwarf forms of C. 

 pisifera, plants with yellow-tipped 

 branches and others with yellow and 

 with white leaves and plants of the 

 variety filifera with green and with 

 yellow leaves. 



Among the Junipers are found some 

 of the most useful dwarf conifers. 

 Some of these are forms of arborescent 

 species and others are natural dwarfs 

 which reproduce themselves from seed. 

 Among the former are three varieties 

 of the so-called Red Cedar of the east- 

 ern states (Juniperus virginiana). 

 One of these (var. globosa) is a com- 

 pact, round-topped bush taller than 

 broad, and in the Arboretum collection 

 where it has been growing, for fifteen 

 years it is about three feet high. The 

 history of this plant is not known at 

 the Arboretum. It came here from 

 Holland and probably originated in a 

 European nursery. The variety Kos- 

 teriana forms a wide open bush with 

 erect and spreading, gracefully arch- 

 ing stems from two to three feet tall. 

 This is an unusually handsome plant 

 which will prove useful for the mar- 

 gins of beds of taller growing conifers. 

 This variety probably also originated 

 In a European nursery. More inter- 

 esting even than these nursery forms 

 of the Red Cedar is a plant which 

 grows on a few wind-swept cliffs on 

 the coast of Maine. Plants of this 

 form are not more than eighteen 

 Inches high, with prostrate stems 

 which spread into dense mats some- 

 times fifteen feet across. These plants 

 bear fertile seeds, and there are seed- 

 lings, grafted plants and young col- 

 lected plants growing in the Arbore- 

 tum, but it is too soon to judge if they 

 will retain the habit of the wild 

 plants when planted in less exposed 

 situations. If this form of the Red 



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Cedar retains Its dwarf habit In culti- 

 vation It will be one of the handsom- 

 est of the prostrate Junipers. Of 

 Juniperus chinensis there are a num- 

 ber of Interesting shrubs in the Ar 

 boretum collection. The handsomest 

 of these, var. Pfitzeriana, .which grows 

 in the form of a low broad pyramid, 

 is the most satisfactory of all Juni- 

 pers in this climate. Fortunately It 

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 green and with yellow leaves which 

 are less than a foot high; and a form 

 of this Juniper, var. Sargentii, from 

 northern Japan with prostrate stems 

 makes mats now eight or ten feet 

 across here. This is a form reproduc- 

 ing itself from seed and has proved 

 to be one of the best of the mat-like 

 Junipers in the collection. With the 

 exception of the dwarf form of the 

 European J. sabina (var. minor), the 

 lowest Juniper in the collection Is 

 J. horizontalis which has long pros- 

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 forms steel blue leaves. This is a 

 North American plant which is widely 

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