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JUNIPER US 



small, scale-like, adult ones. The former are to J in. long, sharply and stiffly 

 pointed, arranged either in threes or oppositely in pairs, with two glaucous 

 lines on the upper surface, green elsewhere. Scale-like leaves usually in pairs, 

 rarely in threes, closely flattened to the branchlet, ^ in. long, blunt at the 

 apex. The plants are unisexual, and the male flowers, very freely borne in 

 early spring, are yellow and pretty. Fruits about J in. diameter, roundish or 

 rather top-shaped, whitish with bloom when ripe ; seeds three. 



Native of Japan, Mongolia, and China ; introduced to Kew in 1804 by 

 W. Kerr. This juniper and J. virginiana are the commonest and best of 

 tree-like junipers for gardens. It is perfectly hardy. From J. virginiana it 

 differs in its blunt, scale-like leaves, and in the awl-shaped ones being 

 frequently in whorls of threes. As a rule both juvenile and adult leaves occur 



JDNIPERUS OXYCEDBUS. 



on the same tree, but occasionally specimens of good age have nothing but 

 juvenile foliage. There are male trees at Kew which bear flowers in the axils 

 of leaves of the awl-shaped, juvenile type. 



Var. ALBO-VARIEGATA. A well-marked form in which a considerable 

 portion of the younger growth is wholly creamy white, the rest wholly green. 

 Introduced from Japan by Fortune, one of whose original plants used to grow 

 in the Knap Hill nursery. This variety is of sturdier habit and dwarfer than 

 the type. 



Var. AUREA. Young's Golden Juniper. The whole of the young parts of 

 this plant are golden yellow, very striking in summer. Raised in" Young's 

 nursery at Milford, in Surrey ; of rather dense, slender form. 



Var. JAPONICA. A dwarf shrub with foliage mostly of the juvenile type. 

 It is represented in gardens by two sub-varieties, viz., japonica AUREA, with all 



