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or from a sport. I am inclined to think it originated 

 from a sport, for upon the upper branches of an old plant 

 of var. squarrosa in this locality I have seen branchlets 

 bearing the foliage of var. plumosa. Some of these I have 

 removed and am endeavouring to propagate them. 



It has coloured forms known as vars. albo spica, 

 argentea, aurea, and aurescens, which differ only in the 

 colour of their foliage, and most of them are common in 

 gardens; but C. pisifera plumosa, var. flavescens, Beiss. 

 (ii. 568), which is described as a broad, crowded, branched, 

 but very regular and compact conical bush, yellow- white 

 in colour, I have never seen. 



C. pisifera plumosa, var. aurea compacta, Beiss. (ii. 570). 

 Syn. : Retinospora plumosa aurea nana, Hort. 

 Beissner regards these forms as identical, and states 

 that they form a broad yellow conical bush; if so, the 

 form now sent out as C. pisifera plumosa, var. nana aurea, 

 is a different thing, as, far from being conical, it makes a 

 very low, compact, rather flat cushion — rather bun- 

 shaped. It is extremely slow in growth; leaves set 

 farther apart — yV to i inch — and not so appressed; round, 

 pointing out at almost a right angle to branchlets which 

 grow only 1 to IJ inches annually. My largest plant is 

 only 5 inches high by about 14 inches across. I have 

 seen this form elsewhere, and it has invariably been 

 cushion-shaped. 



C. pisifera plumosa, var. cristata, K. Onuma (Beiss., ii. 

 570). 

 A form found by Herr Unger in Yokohama ; of luxuriant 

 growth, with crimped or curly side branches and cocks- 

 comb-like branchlet tips. 



C. pisifera, var. nana, Beiss. (i. 91). 



Is one of the smallest of conifers, making a very low, 

 flat-topped bush of dark blue-green foliage. Branchlets 

 fan-shaped, with decurving tips. These fan-shaped 



