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2 feet to 5 feet in height, and decidedly interesting 

 and useful for the purposes already referred to. 



Cryptomeria japonica nana and the dwarf form 

 of the variety elegans are also neat and useful 

 conifers of small growth ; and the same applies 

 to Thuya dolahrata nana, T. orientalis pygmcea, 

 and T. orientalis nana. 



Several varieties of Cupressus are of small and 

 pleasing growth, such as C. Lawsoniana nana, C. 

 Lawsoniana Wisselli, C. Lawsoniana nana glauca, 

 C. obtusa nana, and C. obtusa aurea nana. Taxus 

 baccata nana is a dwarf-spreading variety of the 

 common Yew, that rarely rises more than 3 feet 

 from the ground ; and T. baccata ericoides is like- 

 wise usually of low growth, and furnished with 

 small heath-hke foliage. Thuya occidentalis, " Little 

 Gem," is a neat small -growing conifer ; so are 

 Retinispora plumosa Sanderi, Pinus sylvestris globosa 

 and Cupressus Lawsoniana tamariscifolia. 



These include the smallest - growing varieties, 

 but there are others of shghtly taller habit, which 

 would, however, hardly come within the scope of 

 such as are suitable for the rock-garden or flower- 

 bed. 



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