174 DWABF AND SLOW-GEOWING CONIFERS 



Possibly the best known of the dwarf forms ; a compact 

 ball of fresh green foliage; branchlets crowded and some- 

 what twisted. Short and stout. Ultimate growth about 

 5 feet in diameter, the branchlet sprays being about 



3 inches long by 4 inches across. 



A plant of this form at Curragh Grange is now about 



4 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 6 inches. 



T. occidentalis, var. globosa, Beiss. 

 Syn. : var. Little Gem, Hort. 

 A somewhat similar form, but smaller and finer in every 

 respect ; the branchlet sprays being about 3 inches long by 

 2 J inches across; the whole forming a small compact ball. 



T. occidentalis, var. Hoveyi, Beiss. (ii. 510). 



I do not know the origin of this form. Beissner 

 describes it as a broad stumpy form with dark green 

 Biota-like foUage. The form usually grown under this 

 name is a slow-growing broad pyramid of typical f ohage 

 of a rather yellow-green, and not very attractive. 



T occidentalis, var. umbraculifera (Moll., "D. Gartnerz," 

 1891, 179; Beiss., ii. 510). 



Raised by Christopher Neder in Frankfort- on-Main; 

 a very desirable form. 



Branches ascending; branchlets twisted and sHghtly 

 decumbent, the branchlet sprays being about 6 inches by 

 2 inches. 



Fohage thin, fine, and dark green. 



The whole forming a low bush, narrow at the base, with 

 a wide cushion-shaped head raised in the centre, and not 

 urdike an umbrella. 



Beissner records the size of the original plant in 1909 as 

 being about 2 feet 6 inches high by 3 feet across the top. 

 My best specimen is about 2 feet by 2 feet 3 inches. 



T. occidentalis, var. caespitosa. 



A tiny form which I found in Glasnevin Botanic Gardens ; 

 origin unknown. The smallest form I have seen. 



