160 DWABF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



T. baccata, var. ericoides, Can. (''Conif./' 1st ed., 519, 



1855). 



Syn.: T. empetrifolia, Gord. ("Pinetum/' 390, 1875). 

 T. microphylla, Hort. 

 A small, slender, slow-growing variety which rarely 

 sends up a leading shoot. 

 Branchlets. — Thin, short, and erect. 

 Leaves. — Dark green; small, very pointed and crowded; 

 often falcate; a little longer and more acmninate than 

 those of var. nana. 



T. baccata, var. monstrosa, Carr. ("Conif.," 1st ed., 519, 

 1855). 



Syn. : T. sparsifolia, Loud. 



T. baccata Mitchelli, Hort. 

 Carrier e describes this as a dwarf bush not unHke var. 

 ericoides, but branches more erect and stouter, and every 

 propagated branch throws up a leader. 



Beissner (ii. 54) describes it as a monstrous dwarf bush, 

 with branchlets ascending and irregular, many being small 

 and stunted; leaves set far apart. 

 I cannot find this variety in cultivation. 



T. baccata, var. procumbens, Hort. (not Loud.). 



A low-growing regular bush with rounded top and 

 pendulous elongated branches in thick compact layers. 



Leaves from i to f inch; light green; on many branch- 

 lets pointing up and only slightly forward. A very 

 compact form now growing at Glasnevin; size 3 feet by 

 7 feet. This is a female form, and must not be confounded 

 with var. procumbens, Loud, (a synonym of T. Canadensis). 



T, baccata, var. pygmaea, Beiss. 



This, the smallest form that I have seen, was raised 

 some years ago in the nurseries of Messrs. Den Ouden, of 

 Boskoop, Holland. It makes a minute, narrowly ovoid 

 bush of densely crowded, compressed, ascending branches 

 and branchlets; the annual growth of the latter is only 



