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scarcely more than a mound for quite a number of years, though it 

 eventually assumes a pyramidal form. Where one has room for 

 shrubs of much breadth and little height, the squamata is one of the 

 best The foliage presents a roughly broken surface and a prickly 

 appearance when the plants are young, but with age becomes dense, 

 and smoother in outline, and then breaks well into light and shade. 



THE CREEPING OR PROSTRATE JUNIPER. J. repens (J. pros- 

 frata, J. recumbens). This is a true evergreen creeper which 

 spreads in every direction, and covers the ground with a deep 

 velvety mat of dark green foliage. It forms a rich carpet for rocks 

 which have but little soil upon them, and does best in partial shade. 

 There are fine specimens in the Central Park. Height from six 

 inches to two feet. Hoopes mentions that the aphis or plant lice are 

 particularly injurious to this species, and sometimes kill them in 

 one season. He recommends sprinkling the plants frequently with 

 hot (?) tobacco water until the insects are destroyed. 



THE INCENSE OR SACRED JUNIPER. J. religiosa. This becomes 

 a large tree in its native Nepaul. Sargent considers it hardy at 

 Fishkill, but makes no mention of it as a beautiful or especially 

 desirable sort. It is simply on trial. 



THE CEDAR OF LEBANON. Cedrus libani. The interesting 

 religious associations of this tree, its great size and grand lateral 

 expansion of head, so much more noble in this respect than most 

 of our northern evergreens, and the fact that some of the most 

 beautiful specimens in the world are those which have been planted 

 in England within the last two hundred years, have all tended to 

 make every planter desire a Cedar of Lebanon in his collection. 

 Yet it is by no means one of the most beautiful evergreens when 

 young. Both in contour and branch-lines it is rigidly formal 

 during the first fifty years of its growth, the outline being conical- 

 ovate, and the branching rather horizontal ; and it develops the 

 peculiar tabular expansion of its top and grand lateral sweep of 

 branches only as it approaches a century or more of growth. The 

 foliage in general appearance resembles that of the Juniper family. 



