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Retinospora obtusa gracilis aurea, Veitch, the Slender 



Golden Japan Cypress. 



This is a fine free-growing kind, very similar in habit to the 

 ordinary form of the species, but with the lower parts of the 

 lateral branchlets and lesser spray on the upper surface of the 

 branches of a light yellow colour, and the tips bright green. 



It is a very striking variety, particularly in the spring and 

 summer-time, and was raised in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch 

 and Sons, at Coombe Wood, in Surrey. 



Retinospora obtusa nana aurea, Veitch, the Dwarf Golden 



Japan Cypress. 

 This kind forms a dwarf dense bush, with numerous small, 

 spreading, thickly-placed, flat variegated branchlets. It is one 

 of the finest and most constant of the light-yellow variegated 

 varieties, and was introduced from Japan by the late Mr. John 

 Gould Veitch. 



Retinospora pisifera erecta, Hort., the Erect, Pea-fruited 



Japan Cypress. 

 Syn. Retinospora stricta, Hort. 

 This is a compact, free-growing variety, of upright habit, and 

 foliage of a pale green colour. 

 A nice, distinct variety. 



Retinospora pisifera gracilis, Hort, the Slender, Pea-fruited 



Japan Cypress. 



This variety very much resembles the ordinary form of the 

 species, but differs in having the branchlets and smaller spray 

 much slenderer, and of a brighter green colour. 



Retinospora pisifera nana aurea, Hort., the Dwarf Golden, 

 Pea-fruited Japan Cypress. 



This kind forms a dense, little, miniature bush, with a bluish- 

 grey aspect, and a portion of the lesser branchlets of a pale 

 yellow colour. It is a singular little plant, of slow growth, 

 with the green branchlets on the under side quite glaucous. 



