GENUS JUNIPERUS. 53 



ful and accommodating of the several species of juniper. 

 There are two forms — male and female — though occasionally 

 I have seen both sexes present on one and the same speci- 

 men. The male or pollen-bearing plant is by far the most 

 ornamental, and especially so during the spring months when 

 laden with the conspicuous golden flowers. The habit is 

 strictly erect, especially in the upper half, the foliage acicular, 

 and of a pleasing bright green tint, though occasionally the 

 leaves are scale-like and imbricated, particularly towards the 

 top of the specimen. The conspicuous orange-yellow male 

 flowers are ip many cases so thickly produced that the 

 branches are weighed down in consequence. In the female 

 plant the habit is far more spreading than with the latter, the 

 leaves are for the greater part scale-like and overlapping, and 

 the berries small and purplish-violet in colour. 



J. chinensis albo-varieg^ata has many of the 

 branchlets of a light cream or almost white colour, the green 

 portions also appearing of a brighter tint than that of the 

 species. It is of dwarf-spreading growth. 



J. chinensis aurea is surpassed by no other conifer 

 of this class as a bright, golden-foliaged shrub. It is of free, 

 upright growth, with a plentiful supply of branches and 

 foliage, and stands full exposure in a commendable way. 



J. chinensis (Japanese form.) {Synonym :—J.japonica, 

 Hort.) — This is a dwarf-spreading form of dense growth, with 

 either acicular or scale-like foliage. On the adult plant the 

 leaves are for the greater part ovate, blunt, and closely im- 

 bricated ; while on the juvenile specimen they are generally 

 straight, stiff, and tapering to a sharp point. The berries are 

 sparsely produced, and usually singly at the branch tips ; 

 they being oval in shape, small, and of a glaucous purple 

 colour. In Japan this form is most commonly to be met 

 with. The dimorphous foliage, and size, composition and 

 arrangement of fruit, have caused me to place this as a variety 

 of/, chinensis. 



J. chinensis aurea (Japanese form) is somewhat in the 

 way of a dwarf plant of the golden Chinese variety, but the 



