PICE A 119 



cupped; close- growing and compact; light yellow to red- 

 brown; branches and branchlets in regular plate- like 

 layers. Young blanchlets flexible with slightly drooping 

 tips. 



Leaves. — Light shining green, becoming dark lustrous 

 green; arranged pectinately; under side of branchlet 

 bare; lower ranks point out and slightly forward; upper 

 ranks crowded and almost hiding the branchlet, pointing 

 forward and slightly up, thin, flexible, from ye to xV inch, 

 tapering from lower third to blunt apex. 



There are coloured variations of this known as " glauca " 

 and " nigra," also a silver variegated plant falsely named 

 " pumila argentea " (see var. brevifolia argentea). 



Plants grown under this name seem to be generally 

 true; in fact, one might almost go as far as to say that it 

 is the only variety that one might safely order from a 

 nurseryman without seeing it first. This plant has been 

 grown for a great many years, and there are some fine 

 specimens of it in cultivation. The best I have seen is 

 an old plant on the west lawn of Abbey leix House, Queen's 

 Co. It has been in its present position for more than 

 seventy years. In a specimen as old as this, the plate- 

 like formation of the branches is very noticeable; it has 

 made a low, round bush — flat-topped except for two or 

 three " humps " ; its height is only 4 feet (the humps are 

 6 inches higher) and its circumference is no less than 

 75 feet. 



This form is very variable in cultivation, there being 

 several varieties of it so close to it as to be almost insepar- 

 able; its most distinct variety is grown at Kew under 

 the name of var. diffusa {q.v.). Another variety, fairly 

 distinct, is grown in Highlands Park, Rochester, N.Y., as 

 var. 0-1146 Edson. The specimen sent to me for exam- 

 ination was very close to var. pumila, but from an accom- 

 panying photograph it is evident that its habit is much 

 stifier and compacter, the branches being nearly horizontal 

 and the branchlet tips not pendulous. 



