8o CONIFEROUS TREES 



green, through purplish oHve to a deep, glossy 

 black, and each about the size of a pea. Both 

 fruit and foliage emit a pleasant myrtle-like aroma 

 when bruised. 



J. COMMUNIS CANADENSIS. (Syuonyms : J. 

 alpina, S. F. Gray ; J. canadensis, Loddiges,) — In 

 habit and general outline this bears a great re- 

 semblance to the Savin (/. Sabina), while the 

 leaves are stiff, narrow, and sharp-pointed, grey- 

 green in colour, with a silvery band on the upper 

 side. The growths are very irregular in length, 

 thus causing the plant to have a straggling, and 

 by no means pleasing appearance. 



J. COMMUNIS COMPRESSA must be considered as 

 the dwarfest of all hardy conifers, it rarely exceed- 

 ing a few inches in height. It is of compact conical 

 habit, a specimen of 5 inches in height being about 

 2 inches in diameter of branch-spread, the branch- 

 lets being slender and growing close together in an 

 upward direction. The foliage is thickly produced, 

 the individual leaves short and bright green, chang- 

 ing in severe winters to a dull brown. The rate 

 of growth, even under the best cultivation, is re- 

 markably slow, yet the plant never wears a dumpy 

 or cushion-like appearance, as is the case with the 

 majority of pigmy conifers. 



Many years ago I had a specimen of the above 

 sent to me by a botanical friend, it being then 4 

 inches high, and as pretty a miniature conifer as 

 could be desired. To-day it is hardly one inch 

 taller, very little wider in spread, and of as beautiful 

 a blue-green as when originally received. Con- 

 sidering that it has been growing in the richest 

 of leaf soil for several years and has hardly in- 



