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about i to h inch. The leaves are from J to J inch in 

 length, crowded, stiff, usually recurving, oval, dispro- 

 portionately wide. 



T. baccata, var. nutans, Beiss. 



This is another minute form originating in Messrs. Den 

 Ouden's nurseries. Its branches are few and ascending 

 with decurving tips. Side branchlets are few and scattered. 

 The leaves are very irregular in shape, size, arrangement, 

 and distribution. Portions of a branchlet will have leaves 

 mostly up to yV inch long on one side and about xf inch on 

 the other, both pointed and obtuse. Other portions of 

 the same branchlet are apparently bare, but on close 

 examination will be found to be covered with minute, 

 extremely narrow, heath-Kke leaves tightly appressed to 

 the branchlet for almost their entire length and barely 

 J inch long. A most distinct and interesting form, 

 making a dwarf and very open-growing bush. 



T. baccata, var. compacta, Beiss. 



This is the third dwarf form produced by Messrs. Den 

 Ouden's nurseries, freer-growing than the other two, and 

 making a compact oval or conical bush of ascending 

 branches. Not unhke var. conica nana in appearance, 

 but much smaller in every way. Leaves J to ^g- inch long, 

 recm'ving and fairly broad, arranged radially, very dark 

 shining green. 



T. baccata, var. nana. Knight (" Syn. Conif.," p. 52, 1850) 

 (not W. Paul, Bean, or DaUimore). 



Syn.: T. Foxii, Carr. ("Conif.," i. 519, 1855; Gord., 

 "Pinetum," 391, 1875; Beiss., 174, 1909). 



A very dwarf slow-growing form which originated in 

 England; rather open and straggly in habit. 



Branches. — Few, irregular, ascending, and rather stiff. 



Leaves. — Very short, thick, and variable in shape; 

 some sickle-shaped; much darker than the type; highly 



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