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growing out at right angles, one on each side and opposite 

 to each other. 



I have, and have seen, only young plants of this form. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. prostrata, Beiss. (79). 



An absolutely prostrate form, raised in Eisenheim, 

 Bohemia, by Ordnung, with grey-green foliage. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. Fletcheri. 



This variety originated in Messrs. Fletcher's Nurseries 

 at Chert sey, and is now generally obtainable. It is a very 

 slow-growing juvenile form with intermediate foliage. 

 Branches red, ascending. Branchlets ascending at a 

 narrow angle; both branchlets and foliage being of a 

 wonderful glaucous green, which colour it retains all 

 through the winter; branchlets very fine and densely 

 crowded, from J to 1 inch. Leaves in opposite pairs 

 (intermediate, between juvenile and adult), ascending, 

 flat; upper side slightly concave, with midrib; lower side 

 slightly convex and keeled; tapering to apex, and slightly 

 incurved from upper third to apex ; length under 

 J inch. The oldest plants in cultivation are making 

 small fastigiate or narrowly pyramidal bushes, compact 

 and very dense. This is certainly one of the finest 

 glaucous conifers in existence, and is equal in colour to 

 the best forms of Cednis Atlantica glauca, and so far it 

 seems less susceptible to cold winds than other juvenile 

 forms. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. tamariscifolia. 



A distinct dwarf form raised by Smith of Darley, near 

 Matlock. Branches ascending. Branchlets absolutely 

 irregular, twisting and turning in every direction. Some 

 straight, some pendulous, some curved. The branchlets 

 are not very crowded, but from a distance they appear 

 to be so, owing to the irregularity of their habit. The 

 plant makes a low umbrella-like bush, from which the 

 irregular branchlets project in all directions. The scale- 



