VII.—ON AN ARBORESCENT VARIETY OF Juniperus communis, 
OF LINN#US, OCCURRING IN Nova Scotia, AND NOT 
PREVIOUSLY NOTICED IN OUR FLoRs.—By J. SoMERs, 
M. D., Halifax, N. S. 
(Communicated 11th December, 1893 ; received 15th April, 1896.) 
Some time ago my attention was directed to a variety of our 
common juniper not commonly met with. Mr. William Gibson 
of this city, had for some years given much time to investigating 
the subject. He introduced me to several arborescent junipers, 
some of them, one at least, growing to the size of a lofty shrub. 
Another, he tells me, grew to the size of a small tree, the bole of 
which he judged would be four inches in diameter. The locality 
of these was on the Dartmouth shore of the harbor, near the old 
windmill. ‘The larger one, which I did not see, grew on the 
Halifax side, near the Cotton Factory road. He informs me he 
has been observing the growth of the shrub juniper for over 
twenty years. Some have disappeared in process of clearing, 
others still remain. At the time I visited the place where most 
of those plants grew, Mr. Power, of the Public Gardens, procured 
several specimens for transplantation. I think I am correct in 
stating that some success was attained in this. I know from 
experience of earlier years that though the low juniper was 
common in our vicinity, the shrub form was not. With us, the 
ordinary conception of yuniperus communis is of a low shrubby 
plant, decumbent, froming a circle of growth from the centre 
towards the periphery, the patches varying from two to six 
feet in diameter, depending on the surroundings, rarely rising in 
growth two feet above the surface, the tongh fibrous roots 
spreading themselves somewhat deeply in the soil. 
The juniper here presented departs widely from the method 
of growth described above. It rises upward in a form beauti- 
fully symmetrical, assuming the proportions of a shrub with 
numerous branches, and root stocks ascending and adpressed to 
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