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Branches, branchlets, and foliage short and very thick ; 

 like those of var. minima, but branchlet sprays only 2 inches 

 long by 1 inch across, and growing erect, but forming a 

 very low, rather flat-topped cushion about 9 inches high 

 by 15 inches across. 



This plant has been growing in Glasnevin for over 

 fifteen years. 



T. occidentalis, vars. Woodward! and " Tom Thumb " and 

 Reedii. 

 Are recorded by E. H. Wilson {Garden Magazine, 

 September, 1920, p. 38) as being good dwarf forms without 

 further description. 



T. orientalis, Linnaeus (1753). 



Syn. : Biota orientalis, Endl. (1847). 

 The Chinese Arbor vitce was introduced into Europe 

 about 1750, and a form of the type — a broadly conical 

 or beehive-shaped shrub — is a common feature in lawn 

 planting ; this form, indeed, and its golden-f oHaged counter- 

 part, grow so slowly that they may be admitted into small 

 gardens. The type is easily recognisable from its branch- 

 let sprays being set edgeways to the plant and both sides 

 being of the same colour. Coming as it does from North 

 China, Turkistan, and Formosa, one would expect it to be 

 exceptionally hardy, but while tolerant of frost, it seems 

 somewhat tender to biting winds and also dishkes drought. 



T. orientalis, var. meldensis, Masters (Journ. Roy. Hort. 

 Soc, xiv. 253, 1892). 



Syn. : Biota orientalis, var. meldensis, Laws, ex Carr. 

 C Conif.," ii. 102). 



A shrub, narrowly pyramidal, or round and obtuse, 

 very compact. Branches spreading, semi-erect or deflexed. 

 Branchlets and sprays very numerous and crowded. 

 Leaves opposite, linear, pointed, semi- juvenile, or inter- 

 mediate; glaucous green in summer, violet-red in winter. 

 If scale-hke leaves appear they are appressed. 



This is the intermediate form of T. orientalis, as var. 

 Elwangeriana is of T. occidentalis. 



