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like foliage is very thin and flat, and the leaves are not 

 appressed to the stem the whole way, but are free from 

 about half their length to the apex; the free portion is 

 about tV inch long, and points out and forward at an 

 angle of about 45 degrees, and tapers rapidly to a long 

 and somewhat sharp point. Colour a distinct grey-green. 

 My best specimen is about 2 feet high by 3 feet across. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. Darleyensis, Kent (ii. 208). 

 Syn. : var. nana aurea, Hort. 

 I have a plant under this name also said to be raised 

 by Smith of Darley. Branches and branchlets somewhat 

 similar to var. nana in size; foliage lightly tinged with 

 golden-yellow; habit very loose; branches being few and 

 ascending, and not stiff; branchlets rather pendulous. 



C. Lawsoniana, var. conica, Beiss. (1st ed., 1891). 



Syn. : var. Wisselii, Hort. (" Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 1897, 

 p. 56). 



This in time becomes too large to be termed a dwarf 

 form, but it is of sufficiently slow growth to be included. 

 It is strikingly distinct, its foliage being minute and fern- 

 like, and of a wonderful glaucous blue-grey, but its 

 branches are few and inclined to get " leggy," and it pays 

 to keep it in shape with judicious use of the knife. The 

 branchlets and foliage are rather like those of C. obtusa, 

 var. filicoides, but stouter, the foliage being very crowded 

 and overlapping ; the secondary branchlets being opposite 

 and growing in two ranks, alternate pairs pointing slightly 

 up and slightly down ; branches inclined to twist ; foliage 

 very densely packed on the branchlets; very short and 

 stiff, forming stiff pyramidal or cockscomb -like growths 

 on the branchlets. 



Beissner (ii. 551) states that it was raised by Herr 

 Gebbers in Weissenburg, and was a seedling of vsbT.fragrans 

 argentea of Kew. It makes a conical bush. It was 

 introduced into commerce by Dutch nurserymen under 



