62 DWABF AND SLOW-GBOWING CONIFERS 



J. Chinensis, var. Sheppardi. 



Syn.: J. Sheppardi, Kent in Veitch ("Manual of 

 Conifers," p. 290). 

 J. sphcerica glauca, Beiss. and Gord. (" Pine- 

 turn," p. 122, 1862). 

 This is stated by Beissner to have been found by Fortune 

 in China, and there is some confusion about it. One 

 finds it usually grown as J. Sheppardi or J. sphmrica. 

 In reality it appears to be nothing more than a fixed 

 juvenile form of J. Chinensis, bearing invariably awl- 

 shaped fohage of a very pleasing glaucous blue-green, 

 and making an irregular and rather floppy bush owing 

 to the suppleness of its branches and their rather top- 

 heavy load of branchlets. 



J. Chinensis, var. globosa. 



Syn.: J. Virginiana globosa, Hort, in error. 



J. virginalis globosa, Yokohama Nursery Co. 

 Cat., 1911-22, p. 33 (and probably earlier). 



This plant was always a puzzle to me. I could not 

 understand how J. Virginiana — a species inhabiting the 

 Eastern States of U.S.A. and Canada — came to be a 

 common and much cultivated plant so far west as Japan, 

 and why Japanese gardeners should take the trouble to 

 raise garden forms of this when they possessed so many 

 junipers of their own. However, importation succeeded 

 importation from Japan, and the plant was distributed as 

 a form of J. Virginiana. But recently a careful exam- 

 ination of the plant leads me to believe that it is not a 

 form of J. Virginiana at all, but a form of J. Chinensis ; 

 if this is so, its widespread cultivation in Japan is at once 

 accounted for. My plants have not yet borne fruit, but 

 subject to such confirmation, when, if ever, they do, they 

 have undoubtedly more points of resemblance to J. 

 Chinensis than to J. Virginiana. I have three forms, all 

 making low, compact, round-topped bushes of extremely 

 slow growth and regular appearance. One is dark green 



