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well-known, shrubby-habited species, with much- 

 divided branches clothed with scale-like, bright 

 green leaves, but which are quite wanting in the 

 silvery tint that overlies the foliage of many 

 members of this family. The globose fruit, which 

 is usually produced in plenty, is of a yellowish 

 browTi colour, each of pea size, and takes two years 

 to ripen. The finest specimens that I have seen 

 were growing on mossy ground on the slate rock 

 in Wales, where partially sheltered, and near the 

 sea-coast, and at Rostrevor it has attained to a 

 height of over 13 feet. The variety turhinata has 

 ovoid and sharply conical fruit. 



J. RECURVA, Buchanan-Hamilton. Weeping 

 Indian Juniper. Himalayas, Cashmir to Sikkim. 

 1830. — This is one of the most distinct, beautiful, 

 and valuable of the many species of the genus. 

 Although perfectly hardy, it is somewhat fastidious 

 and difficult to manage, and like many others of 

 its Chinese relatives, has its likes and dislikes, 

 both as regards soil and situation, but these being 

 favourable, no more easily cultivated tree or shrub 

 will be found in the whole range of coniferous 

 trees. The branches are somewhat irregular of 

 growth, the branchlets recurved, pendulous, and 

 feathery, and well supplied with loosely imbricated 

 bluish or greyish green foliage. The fruit or 

 berries are oval -shaped, with one seed in each, 

 are of a pretty, dark purple colour, and shown 

 off well by the lightly tinted foliage. The tree is 

 not, as stated by Gordon, Veitch, and others, 

 dioecious, but frequently produces male and female 

 flowers on the same twig. Three crops of berries 

 are commonly found on the tree at one and the 



