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III. Spreading in habit. 



8. Var. intertexta. A robust plant, with distinct and arching branches, and 

 remote stout divaricate branchlets. Foliage slightly glaucous or bluish green. 1 



9. Var. juniperina. Branchlets regularly pinnate, the ultimate divisions slender, 

 with the leaves free at their apices, and yellowish green in colour. 



10. Var. patula. Of pyramidal compact habit, with the branchlets very slender 

 and forming fan-shaped expansions ; leaves dark green, shining. 



11. Yar. Youngi, Masters, in Gard. Chron. i. 176 (1887). Of elongated 

 pyramidal habit, with ascending, loosely - arranged, more or less concave and 

 twisted branches. 



1 2. Var. filifera. Branches spreading or sub-pendulous ; the terminal branch- 

 lets being very long, with short remote lateral branchlets. There are good 

 examples of this peculiar variety at Grayswood, Haslemere, and at Brickendon 

 Grange, Herts. 



IV. Dwarf in habit. 



13. Var. nana. This includes the dwarf varieties, the original form having 

 been obtained 2 in 1861 by Dauvesse. It is ovoid in shape, with stiff erect flattened 

 branches and branchlets, and seldom exceeds 3 ft. in height. There is, however, a 

 specimen at Westonbirt, said to be forty years old, which is about 7 ft. high. There 

 are two distinct forms, one bluish green, which is the best, and another light green. 

 Coloured dwarf varieties are also known as var. nana alba, with yellowish white 

 foliage, and var. nana glauca, with very glaucous foliage. 



V. Coloured varieties. 



14. Var. albo-spica. Densely pyramidal in habit ; terminal branchlets variegated 

 with creamy-white. Forms known as albo-maculata, albo-picta, and argenteo- 

 variegata, are very similar, if not identical, with this variety. The best example 

 that we have seen of this is at Inverary, where it measured about 30 ft. in 1908. 



15. Var. argentea {wax. glauca). Foliage very glaucous, varying from almost a 

 silvery white to steel blue. The forms known as " Silver Queen " and " Triomphe 

 de Boskoop " 3 are similar, but differ somewhat in their degree of glaucescence. 

 The latter is said to be the bluest conifer known. Other glaucous forms known as 

 var. Bowleri and var. californica are in cultivation at Kew. 



16. Var. albo-variegata. A dwarf compact variety, with the foliage profusely 

 spotted and blotched with white. This originated in the Coombe Wood Nursery. 



17. Var. aurea. Foliage golden yellow in the spring and summer of the first 

 year, greenish yellow in autumn and winter following, becoming green in the second 

 year. This is one of the best and most vigorous golden conifers for formal gardens 

 and lawns, and has been largely planted at Baron's Court, where it forms a number 

 of round compact bushes about 15 ft. high and as much in diameter. It requires 

 exposure to full sunlight to bring it to perfection. It was shown by Waterer 4 



1 A MS. note of Dr. Masters says that this was the form which first appeared in cultivation at Lawson's nursery. 



2 Gard. Chron., 1 864, p. 579. In the King's Acre Nursery, Hereford, a dwarf bright green variety, known as var. 

 pygmea, is only 3 ft. high after twenty-four years' growth. 



3 Cf. Gard. Chron. xxv. 116 (1899). 4 Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 315. 



