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about 8 inches long by 2 inches wide. This form makes 

 a round bush usually wider than high. There are old 

 specimens at Woodside, Howth, and at Curragh Grange 

 about 4 feet high by 5 feet through. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. nana glauca, Beiss. (ii. 552). 



Is rather denser and rounder, with glaucous blue- 

 green foliage. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. nana albo-variegata, Beiss. 



Syn. : var. alba maculata, Hort. 

 There are two forms of this variety in commerce; the 

 best, sometimes sent out as var. alba maculata, is a small 

 compact conical bush of dark blue-green foliage tipped 

 with clean white, the whole plant appearing white from a 

 distance. The other is looser in habit; the branches less 

 erect and branchlet tips pendulous ; it is of a much paler 

 green, and the white markings are a dirty cream-white. 

 I have seen no old specimens of the former. An old 

 plant of the latter form at Curragh Grange, Co. Kildare, 

 is a roundish umbrella-like bush 4 feet high by about 

 3 feet through. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. nana albo-spicata, Beiss. (ii. 352). 



Is described as a compact conical plant with silver-white 

 tips and darker inner foliage, giving the plant a shimmering 

 appearance. I have never seen this form. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. minima, Gordon (" Pinetum," 1878, 

 89; Beiss., ii. 79). 

 There appear to be two forms of this, one with light 

 yellow-green and the other with glaucous blue foliage. 

 Beissner describes them as " compact balls " of crowded 

 branches, but all plants I have received or seen are broadly 

 conical rather than globose. They are of slower and 

 denser growth than var. nana, and the ascending branches 

 and branchlets are inclined to twist sideways so as to 

 present their edges to view, somewhat in the same manner 

 as Thuya orientalis does. An average branchlet spray 



