EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 559 



we have seen noble native growths of the red cedar. On Kelley's 

 Island there were formerly trees with trunks thirty inches in 

 diameter. It is also found of large size in the valley of the 

 Ohio. 



The Weeping Red Cedar, y. virgin iana pendula (J. viri- 

 dissinia poidula). — This variety is distinguished by more slender 

 branches, of which the young twigs and growing wood are pen- 

 dulous. It has a free, loose, irregularly conical growth, that 

 promises, on rich soils, to make it a spirited old tree. The foliage 

 is of a decidedly yellowish tone of green. It seems likely to prove 

 the most interesting of the red cedars. 



The Glaucous Red Cedar. J. virginia7ia glauca ( y. ciner- 

 escefis ?J. — This is simply a variety of the common cedar, with 

 decidedly bluish-green and abundant foliage, in pleasing contrast 

 with the warm green of the preceding variety. 



The Compact Red Cedar, % v. pyramidalis, is a variety 

 described as having an unusually fastigiate habit. 



The Variegated Red Cedar. J. v. variegata. — Of this we 

 know nothing more than that its foliage is said to be " deeply 

 variegated with a golden yellow." 



The above, we believe, are the most noted varieties of our 

 red cedar which have been honored with names, and all become 

 medium-sized trees. 



The White Cedar, well known as a swamp timber tree, is 

 classed by botanists with the cypress family as Cupressus thyoides, 

 under which head it may be found. 



The English Juniper, jf. communis vulgaris. Fig 

 — ^This is a spreading, shrubby bush, usually from 

 three to ten feet high, and generally of little beauty, 

 though it sports occasionally into pleasing forms. 



The Swedish Juniper, J. siiecica, a slenderly 

 conical little tree, as shown by Fig. 177, in which pe- 

 culiarity it is only excelled by the Irish juniper. It is 

 one of the most available slender evergreens for small places, 



