i86 CONIFEROUS TREES 



habit or pleasing colour, this dwarf conifer well 

 merits attention ; while it is quite distinct from 

 any of the numerous small growing forms of the 

 Chinese Arborvitae. The usual habit is a dense 

 conical mass of rather feeble branches, the foliage 

 of the most pleasing glaucous green shade — a 

 colour that is constant at all seasons of the year. 

 Being of seedling growth, this marked character- 

 istic is retained under cultivation. 



T. ORiENTALis ELEGANTissiMA is of narrow 

 pyramidal habit of growth, the foliage being of a 

 constant golden green. It is more stiff in outline 

 than T. orientalis aurea. 



T. ORIENTALIS ERicoiDES (Synonym : Retini- 

 spora ericoides) is one of the neatest and dwarfest 

 of the tribe, it being usually seen as a dense, 

 compact shrub not much over i yard in height. 

 The change of colour of foliage from a light, clear 

 green in summer to a bronzy violet in winter is 

 both curious and beautiful. Both branches and 

 branchlets are slender and numerous, while the 

 primordial leaves are arranged in pairs, and 

 distinctly glaucous beneath. 



T. ORIENTALIS FALCATA has a rather irregular 

 habit of growth, though of dense somewhat conical 

 outline, and is well furnished with brownish green 

 foliage. It is rendered distinct by reason of the 

 cone-scales terminating in sickle-like spines. Some 

 of the many forms of the Chinese Arborvitae are 

 by no means readily identified, but such will not 

 apply to the subject of this note, for the curiously 

 shaped cones render recognition both speedy and 

 certain. The partly upright habit, too, might go 

 far in determining the variety, but without fruit 



