162 DWAEF AND SLOW-GROWING CONIFERS 



glazed and sometimes red-brown at the tips. There is 

 an old specimen in Glasnevin Botanic Gardens — a low 

 pyramidal bush of very open growth, about 2 feet 6 inches 

 high and about the same through. 



This form is now rare in cultivation; it is extremely 

 slow-growing, rarely exceeding 3 feet in height; it is the 

 earhest form described under the name of nana, which 

 name, therefore, it must retain to the exclusion of others. 

 Carriere states (ii. 735) that it has lost much of its character 

 from the propagation of its strongest shoots, which have 

 a tendency to spread and raise themselves. On the 

 mother plant the leaves were very short and rarely falcate ; 

 on propagated plants they are longer and narrower. 



T. baccata, var. Cheshuntensis. 



Syn. : var. nana, \Y. Paul (Gord., "Pinetum," ii. 391, 

 1878) (not Knight, Bean, or Dallimore). 



A dwarf, dense, compact conical bush with leaves 

 darker, more glossy green, and occasionally longer than 

 the type, and at times bronzy-brown in colour. 



Branches and BrancMets. — Regular, fairly thick, and all 

 ascending at a narrow angle. 



Leaves. — Radial on the branches and most of the 

 branchlets; semi-radial to pectinate on a few branchlets. 



There is a specimen of this form at Aldenham House, 

 Elstree, Herts, which, Mr. Vicary Gibbs informs me, was 

 obtained from Barbier of Orleans about 1912. It is now 

 4 feet by 3 feet. This is the second form in cultivation 

 found under the name of var. nana, but as its claim to the 

 name is not as old as that of var. nana. Knight, a new 

 name had to be found for it. It was raised in Paul's 

 Nurseries at Cheshunt, but is no longer obtainable there. 



T. baccata, var. expansa, Carr. ("Conif.," ii. 738, 1867). 



A low shrub with widely ramified branches spreading 

 horizontally. 



