78 CONIFEROUS TREES 



In the female plant the habit is far more spreading, 

 the leaves are for the greater part scale-like and 

 overlapping, and the berries small and purplish 

 violet in colour. A most useful ornamental conifer 

 of medium size. 



J. CHiNENSis ALBO-VARIEGATA has many of the 

 branchlets almost white in colour, the green por- 

 tions also appearing of a brighter tint than that 

 of the species. It is of dwarf, spreading growth. 



J. CHINENSIS AUREA is Surpassed by no other 

 conifer of this class as a bright, golden foliaged 

 shrub. It is of free, upright growth, with a plenti- 

 ful supply of branches and foliage, and stands full 

 exposure in a commendable way. 



J. CHINENSIS (Japanese form). (Synonym : J. 

 japonica, Hort.) This is a dwarf, spreading form 

 of dense growth, with either acicular or scale-like 

 foliage. On the adult plant the leaves are for the 

 greater part ovate, blunt, and closely imbricated ; 

 while on the juvenile specimen they are generally 

 straight, stiff, and tapering to a sharp point. The 

 berries are sparsely produced, and usually singly 

 at the branch tips ; they are oval in shape, small, 

 and of a glaucous purple colour. In Japan this 

 form is most commonly to be met with. The 

 dimorphous foliage, and size, composition, and 

 arrangement of fruit have caused me to place this 

 as a variety of /. chinensis. 



J. CHINENSIS AUREA (Japanese form) is some- 

 what in the way of a dwarf plant of the golden 

 Chinese variety, but the colour is not so deep 

 nor so long sustained as in that well-known form. 



J. CHINENSIS AUREO-VARiEGATA (Japanese form) 

 differs from the preceding in having only a few 



