JUNIPERUS RECUKVA. 



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var. squamata which with its decumbent stems and erect branches in 

 places covers large areas that cannot be traversed without great 

 difficulty. The wood of the arborescent form is fragrant and reddish 

 brown like that of the American Eed Cedar ; the resinous twigs of the 

 shrubby form are used for incense.* 



The date of the introduction of Juniperus recurva into Great Britain 

 does not appear to have been recorded. London states that there was a 

 plant four years old in 1837 in the Horticultural Society's garden at 



Fig. 58. Juniperus recurvci in Sikkim. 

 (From the Himalayan Journals of Sir J. D. Hooker.) 



Chiswick and one still older in Loddiges' nursery at Hackney which had 

 borne the fruit from which his figure was taken. In British gardens it 

 is a distinct shrub or low tree with pendulous feathery branchlets clothed 

 with greyish green foliage ; in situations favourable for its development 

 it is a graceful and picturesque plant quite unlike any other, affording a 

 pleasing contrast to its surroundings ; in dry soils the persistent older 

 leaves often become rusty brown and chaff-like, imparting to the plant 

 an unhealthy aspect. The monoecious form is most common but an 

 exception occurs in the grounds of the Right Hon. A. H. Smith-Barry at 



* Braudis, Forest Flora, loc. cit. supra. 



