180 DWAEF AND SLOW-GBOWING CONIFEES 



A broad compact dwarf bush, with bluish foUage and 

 short crowded branchlets, compressed and disposed 

 fan- wise. Leaves scale-hke,. crowded, thick and stumpy; 

 obtuse apex ; appressed for the whole of their length. 



Beissner says this is more like a form of T. occidentalis 

 than T. orientalis. Carriere states that it was raised 

 in America, and he suggests that it may be a connecting 

 link between T. occidentalis and T. orientalis. 



T. orientalis, var. densa glauca, Beiss. (ii. 526). 



A pretty, densely branched blue-green dwarf, of 

 roundish shape, with foUage similar to var. nana. 



T. orientalis, var. minima glauca. 



The smallest form, a tiny globular bush of juvenile 

 fohage, similar in appearance to vars. Meldensis or 

 ChamoecyjKiris spheroidea ericoides. 



Extremely slow-growing. Annual growth of fine heath- 

 like ascending branches, J to | inch only. 



Foliage glaucous green in summer, yellow-brown in 

 winter. My best specimen, planted ten to twelve years, 

 is still only a few inches high and as much through. 



T. orientalis, var. Rosedalis compacta. 



A juvenile form, and the most beautiful of all; branches, 

 branchlets, and fohage finer and more heath-hke than 

 var. juniperoides. Growth very crowded. Annual growth 

 of branchlets 1 inch to 3 inches ; the branches and branch- 

 lets are so fine and filmy that it is necessary to tie a piece 

 of fine string around the plant to hold it in shape. 



It makes a shapely ovoid bush and changes colour three 

 times a year. First in early spring the young growth 

 comes out a briUiant golden-yellow ; as the season advances 

 this gradually disappears from base to crown, changing 

 to a glaucous pale sea-green. Then in winter the whole 

 plant becomes a glaucous plum colour, almost indescrib- 

 ably beautiful. I got this form originally from Chenault, of 

 Orleans, and do not know its origin, but it is certainly a 



