192 CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 



signs of difference that sets our minds at rest and 

 at a glance restores confidence. We must content 

 ourselves, if puzzled, with the reflection that they 

 are probably the same tree but of different geo- 

 graphical habitat. One, the J. Virginiana, hails from 

 the swampy lands of North America ; while the other, 

 the Excelsa, comes from the higher regions of the 

 eastern hemisphere. Some of them are very rare. 

 The Pachyphloea, and some of its acicular, silvery, 

 juvenile-leaved varieties, have of the last few years 

 been sent out by nurserymen, and so far as we hear — 

 though in its arborescent form they were rather dis- 

 credited by long-ago experience — they have endured 

 well a few years of life, and even survived the extreme 

 winter severities of 191 5-16 and 1 916-17. Many 

 varieties of the Sabinse, in particular, are constantly 

 seen in rock gardens, and not only of the Sabinae but 

 varieties of the acicular-leaved J. Communis. Of the 

 latter, a variety more rightly entitled compressa, but 

 more regularly, and at the same time with irregu- 

 larity, designated as Hibernica, a name upon which 

 the fastigiate Irish Juniper claims a prior call. Of 

 the Oxycedri, Bean recommends especially the Com- 

 munis and its varieties Compressa and Fastigiata, 

 and the Drupacea. We could not obtain advice 

 from a better authority. One more word on this 

 J. Communis. E. Wilson describes its habitat, or 

 accomplishment of its territorial occupation, as 

 '* Circum-Polar," a word certainly of a far-ranging 

 ring, that would almost seem to fit in with a modern 

 Prussian sense of appropriation. 



I must not close the chapter on Junipers without 

 reference to the long, acicular-leaved (nearly an inch 

 long) J. Drupacea. It has not so far produced 

 fruit in England. As the tree is dioecious it must be 

 presumed that we only possess male specimens. 

 A short time ago I received a branch and some fruit 



