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juvenile forms of T. orientalis, the tips of its leaves are 

 inclined to recurve, and not, like those of T. occidentalism 

 to incurve. 



Beissner states (''Nadel.," ii. 520) that in winter its 

 foliage changes to brownish-violet or steel blue in colour. 

 In the mild chmate of Ireland this change is not percep- 

 tible, nor does Carriere refer to it. Possibly in the 

 greater cold of the German winter this change of colour 

 takes place. Vars. Rosedalis, meldensis, and miniina 

 glauca aU change colour in any chmate. 



This is the fixed juvenile form of T. orientalis, as var. 

 ericoides is of T. occidentalis, and it is now very rare 

 in cultivation. It is easily propagated from cuttings, 

 and deserves wide cultivation on account of its beautiful 

 glaucous colour. There is much confusion about its 

 name. It was originally exhibited at the French Inter- 

 national Horticultural Exhibition of 1852 as Jtmiperus 

 ericoides, but was first described by Carriere in 1867 as 

 Eetinospora juniperoides. For this reason I prefer to 

 retain Carriere' s name of var. juniperoides to that of 

 Beissner — "var. decussata" — under which it is now, but 

 rarely, found. This form is so rare in the British Isles 

 that there is no specimen of it at present at the Botanic 

 Gardens of Kew, Glasnevin, or Edinburgh. There is a 

 fine specimen, however, at Rostrevor, purchased by Sir 

 John Ross, of Bladensburg, from Veitch about twenty-five 

 years ago, and now nearly 4 feet in height. The plant at 

 Kew grown under the name of "var. decussata'' is pos- 

 sibly var. intermedia, Carr. ("Man. des Plantes," v. 322). 



T. orientalis, var. nana, Carr. ("Conif.," ii. 94, 1867). 

 Syn. : var. compacta, Beiss. 

 An extremely compact dwarf form, havmg its spray 

 in the vertical plane similar to the type, and forming 

 a broad, roundish, beehive-shaped bush, of ascending 

 branches and bright green adult fohage. 



This form has long been cultivated in Japanese gardens ; 



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