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secondary branchlets are about IJ inches long and 1 inch 

 across the spray. An old specimen in my possession has 

 made a low cushion 10 by 12 inches through. 



C. pisifera, var. nana aureo-variegata. 



Syn. : Retinispora pisifera nana aureo variegata, Van 

 Giert. 



Is similar and possibly slower in growth; some of its 

 foliage is tipped with gold. I have an old specimen of 

 this form, certainly twenty years of age, which has made 

 a dense flat-topped cushion about 21 inches in height by 

 2 feet through, but at Curragh Grange there is a smaller 

 specimen about 14 by 18 inches of perfect shape — a dense 

 rounded cushion. 



Beissner (ii. 573) records C. pisifera aurea nana (a form 

 that I have never seen) with all its foliage yellow. 



Here I must mention a juvenile form grown at Sir 

 Edmund Loder's, Leonardslee, Horsham, as — 



C. pisifera, var. ericoides, Kegel ("Russ. Dendr.," ed. 2, 



27, 1883). 



This was obtained from Dickson's Nursery at Chester, 

 but its origin cannot be traced, and it is nearer in appear- 

 ance to a juvenile state of Thuya plicata, Don, than to 

 C. pisifera. These juvenile forms, however, are not easy 

 to determine, and my knowledge of this plant being limited 

 to the examination of a small branch of it, it remains for 

 the present unverified. 



Its branches are all ascending, red-brown, and stout. 

 Branchlets, green to red-brown ; very crowded and ascend- 

 ing at so narrow an angle as to almost touch each other. 

 It is not urdike Thuya occidentalism var. ericoides, at first 

 sight, but the number of young branchlets on a spray of the 

 latter is about two to three, while on the former they are 

 three to six. 



Leaves borne usually in threes, sometimes on weak 

 shoots in twos ; pale, bright green, turning slightly brown 

 in winter. On side shoots, just over 1 mm. wide at base 



