60 DWABF AND SLOW-GEOWING C0NIFEE8 



broad white lines separated by narrow keel. Leaves close 

 set on branchlets and whole appearance very glaucous. 

 Branchlets ascending and very crowded; annual growth 

 of sprays about J to § inch. 



I received this form from the Arnold Arboretum as the 

 dwarfest variety of C. pisifera squarrosa, but its origin 

 was unknown. If the descriptions of the two last varieties 

 be compared, it will be seen that they are similar in some 

 respects, but I do not understand why its leaves should 

 mostly recurve, as in all other juvenile forms of C. pisifera 

 they are inclined to incurve in twos; these juvenile 

 forms are so similar to one another that in the absence of 

 proof of origin one has to accentuate small points of 

 divergence or of similarity. For instance, all juvenile 

 forms of Thuya occidentalis have occasional leaves in- 

 curving and a general tendency to incurve; those of T. 

 orientalis practically never incurve, and so on. In the 

 present instance, as there is little in the appearance of the 

 plant that would lead one to assume that it was a juvenile 

 form of C. pisifera, I should like to know its origin, and 

 whether it was actually grown from C. pisifera seed or 

 was assumed to have been so. 



C. pisifera, var. plumosa, Beiss. (ii. 567). 

 Syn. : Eetinospora plumosa, Veitch. 



Also introduced by J. G. Veitch from Japan in 1861. 

 Another juvenile form, an intermediate state between 

 var. squarrosa and the type, and forming a smaller, more 

 compact, and more broadly pyramidal bush. Leaves only 

 about haK the size of the former, arranged in opposite 

 pairs, and much closer together, tapering more rapidly 

 to a longer and sharper point, concave and green on the 

 outside and convex and very white inside, with either 

 no dividing midrib or midrib very prominent and well 

 shaped. Leaves somewhat appressed to branchlet and 

 pointing forward. 



I do not know whether this form originated from seed, 



