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lutely erect, with but few branches, which are invariably 

 compressed tightly up against the leader, so that the 

 plant, which is now about 4 feet in height, presents the 

 appearance of a loosely folded umbrella. It has main- 

 tained an even width from base to top, and is so narrow 

 that a fair-sized curtain ring could be passed up and down 

 its full length. A very striking plant. 



T. baccata, var. horizontalis. Knight C'Syn. Conif.," ii. 52) 

 andCarr. (" Tr. Gen. Conif.," 518). 



Syn. : T. horizontalis, Hort. 



T. disticJia, Wenderath ex Henk. and Hochst. 

 (" Syn. des NadeL," 354). 

 "Branches vertical; horizontally spreading; reflexing 

 from summit. Leaves distichous; distant 2 to 5 cm. 

 Up. to 4 mm. wide. Often falcate or rolled back. Raised 

 by M. Bertin, pere, nurseryman at Versailles, quite different 

 from var. Doverstonei, with which Gordon and his 

 copyists, Henkel and Hochstetter, confused it." This 

 description is Carriere's (2nd ed., 1867, 734), and I have 

 little to add to it. The branches are very stiff and stout, 

 and the branch tips and branchlets are not pendulous. 

 This form is very rare in cultivation: there is an old 

 specimen of it in the kitchen garden at Kilmacurragh, Co. 

 Wicklow, about 3 feet 6 inches high by over 7 feet through. 



T. baccata, var. prostrata, Bean (" Trees and Shrubs," 

 1916, 581). 

 A form of normal growth but prostrate habit. I do not 

 know the origin of this form, and have seen only young 

 plants of it. I have one small specimen obtained from 

 Barron's Nurseries at Borrowash. 



T. baccata, var. Sieboldi, Beiss. (ii. 54). 



Beissner notes this form in the Moscow Nursery — a 

 flat-topped spreading form, similar to the type except in 

 habit. The old plant noted was 1 metre high by 3 metres 

 across, and was round and flat. 



