58 DWABF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



of strong growth. These spiral forms of cryptomeria in 

 their seasons of strong growth send out an unusually large 

 number of branches and branchlets, the majority of which 

 have normal foliage, but this normal foliage in " resting " 

 seasons at once curls tightly again round the branchlet. 

 In grafted plants there is a general tendency to revert 

 to the normal permanently, and at Mount Usher, Co. 

 Wicklow, I saw a tree of, I think, the first form which has 

 thrown up a leader, and is normal and arborescent except 

 at the base, which retains its bushy habit and pendulous 

 spiral foliage. 



There is a normal tree at Stradbally Park, Queen's Co. 

 (about 70 feet in height), on a low-growing branch of which 

 a perfectly globose " witches '-broom " of very dark green 

 thick foliage has appeared. It is about 2 feet through, 

 and from the appearance of some of its branchlets it is 

 possible that they also have at times their foliage twisted 

 round them in this manner. 



C. Japonica, var. globosa nana. 



Branches ascending. Branchlets pendulous or arching ; 

 annual growth 1 to IJ inches. Leaves from -|- to | inch; 

 light yellow-green, radial, and somewhat appressed to 

 the branchlet, incurved and stout. 



This makes a compact, regular, rather open-growing 

 flat or round-headed bush, shaped like a wide-mouthed 

 funnel. My best specimen is about 2 feet 6 inches by 

 3 feet 6 inches. 



C. Japonica, var. elegans nana ("Mitt. d. d. d. Ges.," 1899, 

 141). 



A dwarf form of the fixed juvenile foliaged variety, 

 making a compact, fine-branched oval bush with pendulous 

 branchlets. Beissner (ii. 481) records two good specimens 

 in the Hofgarten at Wilhelmshohe. My best specimen is 

 about 3 feet high. 



