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t\venty feet. Sargent writes that it is with difficulty transplanted, 

 and recovers slowly afterward ; but when fairly started succeeds 

 admirably. Parsons & Co., at Flushing, have beautiful specimens. 

 It requires care and protection while young from summer's sun as 

 well as winter's cold. Hoopes in his Book of Evergreens states 

 that it may be grafted upon the red cedar. If it is durable and 

 thrifty as a graft upon that stock, its beauty may be rendered 

 quickly available by grafting it not too high on strong young trees 

 of this common sort. 



The Chinese Juniper, y. sinensis. — This was highly com- 

 mended six years ago, but is now considered by most planters who 

 have tried it to be almost worthless. 



The Canadian Juniper, y. canadensis. The Savin, y. sabina, 

 and the Alpine Juniper, % alpifia, are low, broadly spreading 

 shrubs, that take up a great deal of room that may be much more 

 prettily occupied by other things. 



The Dense Indian Junipers, y. densa, % repafida densa, and 

 y. rccurva densa, are so well confused that we do not know if the three 

 botanical names are of different varieties or the same thing. The 

 species is from the Bhotan or Nepaul country in Asia. A small 

 plant seen at Parsons & Co.'s was the most perfect little thing of 

 the Juniper family seen there, having a velvety compactness of 

 foliage unequalled by any other. The name given to it at the nursery 

 is the y. rcpanda dcjisa. Hoopes does not consider these Junipers 

 quite hardy. Sargent makes them hardy at Fishkill. We have 

 faith in the one just mentioned merely by reason of its very healthy 

 and hardy appearance. Height and breadth three to six feet. (?) 



The Scale-leaved Juniper, y. sguamata, has become one of 

 the most popular of the family since the publication of the excellent 

 engraving in Sargent's Supplement to Downing's Landscape Gar- 

 dening, of a specimen growing in the grounds of R. S. Fields, N. J. 

 After seeing the engraving we think most persons will be disap- 

 pointed in the tree (or rather bush) itself It certainly makes a 

 fine broad mound of the peculiar foliage of the Junipers, but it is 

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