THE CYPEESS SUB-FAMILY. 



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distantly disposed, spreading or glaucous-green in color. 



Branches numerous, spreading, "incurved, catkins very 



numerous, bright yellow 

 color, and covering the 

 plant with their golden 

 hued pollen at maturity. 

 fertile plant, leaves, 

 small, scale-formed, loose- 

 ly imbricated, and plac- 

 ed binately. Branch- 

 es, numerous, spread- 

 ing, drooping, somewhat 

 slender. Fruit small, 

 variable in shape, gener- 

 ally oblong, or spherical, 

 one or two seeded, and 

 of a peculiar dark violet 

 color, with a glaucous 

 bloom. 



The Chinese Juniper, 

 as commonly known in 

 our nurseries, is the male 

 form, J. Chinensis mas 

 of Linnaeus, and is a 

 large conical shaped 

 shrub, attaining the 

 height of 15 or 20 feet at 

 maturity. The branches 

 are very numerous, up- 

 right, and inclined to 

 spreading, with various- 

 ly shaped leaves. When 

 in bloom, it is very 

 beautiful ; the great pro- 

 fusion of flowers shed 

 their pollen in such large 

 quantities that the shrub 

 is often completely overspread with the golden-tinted 

 13* 



Fig'. 39. JUNIPERUS CHINENSIS, 

 STERILE PLANT. 



