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is very irregular. It grows fairly large in time, but is 

 slow-growing and most useful for a rough corner. It is 

 a pity that it was not named originally var. albo " spicata " 

 rather than variegata, as the latter name is also applied 

 to another form of J. Chinensis (to which it is more 

 suited). Nurserymen occasionally list this plant as "J. 

 Fortuni " (a name belonging to J. splicer ica), the only 

 conceivable reason for their doing so being the fact that 

 this form happens to be one of the plants introduced by 

 Fortune from Japan. 



We now come to one of our difficulties. 



J. Chinensis, var. Japonica, Lavallee. (''Art. Segrez," 290, 

 1877). 



Syn. : J. Chinensis procumb ens, Endl.)Beiss. (ii. 607) 

 J. procumbens, Sieb. f in error. 



(In part) J. Japonica, Carr. (" Conif.," ii. 33, 

 1855). 



There is no such species as J. Japonica, but this name 

 has been loosely and generally applied to several varieties 

 of J. Chinensis, which, however, are fairly distinct from 

 one another. What one may term the typical " J. 

 Japonica " of gardens is a bushy plant with rather low- 

 spreading fan-shaped branches slightly raised at the tips. 

 In very small plants the juvenile foliage predominates; 

 in older plants the adult predominates. This form is 

 now not common in gardens, being usually represented 

 by one or other of its two coloured forms — var. albo 

 variegata and var. aureo variegata : as well as being known 

 as J. Japonica, these two coloured forms are also occa- 

 sionally found as J. Sinensis, vars. aureo and albo varie- 

 gata, and as J . Virginana, vars. aureo and albo variegata. 



These two coloured forms resemble the green form 

 exactly in its decumbent habit, the only difference in their 

 case being that the adult foliage predominates even in 

 small plants. Otherwise they are like the green form in 

 every respect, and their variegation is quite regular all 

 over the plant ; this var. albo variegata therefore must not, 



