1420 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



According to Gamble its growth is slow, about twenty-two rings per inch of 

 radius for the Sikkim tree ; and the wood is very good, equal to the best pencil cedar, 

 but is not used except to burn as incense in the Buddhist temples. 



This is the most ornamental of the junipers on account of its graceful drooping 

 habit ; and though introduced 1 in 1830, and hardy enough to grow well and ripen its 

 berries in Scotland, it is not common in cultivation, and is seldom found in nurseries. 2 

 Its success in cultivation seems to depend principally on sufficient moisture in summer, 

 all the best specimens that I have seen being in districts where the rainfall is heavy. 



The largest I know in England is at Bicton, where there are two trees about 

 40 and 35 ft. high by 3 ft. 4 in. in girth, which bear abundance of berries. At 

 Hafodunos in Denbighshire I saw in 191 1 a very fine tree with three stems from the 

 ground, almost equal in height, 40 ft. to 41 ft., and each about 2 ft. in girth. At 

 Bodorgan in Anglesea there is a good-sized tree. Even in the drier climate of 

 Gloucestershire there is a thriving tree at Highgrove, near Tetbury, the seat of 

 Arthur Mitchell, Esq., from the berries of which I have raised plants ; and another 

 occurs at Highnam. There are also good specimens at Pencarrow and Menabilly in 

 Cornwall, Mamhead in Devon, Bayfordbury and High Canons, Herts, Rotherfield 

 Park, Hants, and Holkham, Norfolk. 



In Scotland there is a small tree at Murthly, from which I have raised seedlings ; 

 and a thriving shrub at Drumtochty Castle. Another at Dalkeith was 1 4 ft. high in 1 907. 



In Ireland there is a large bushy tree 8 with nine main stems, 40 ft. high and 

 thirty-seven paces round at Castle wellan (Plate 349). At Salterbridge, Co. Waterford, 

 the seat of Major Chearnley, I saw in 19 10 another of the same type and almost as 

 large ; and at Fota I measured a tree 38 ft. high in 1910. (H. J. E.) 



JUNIPERUS SQUAMATA 



Juniperus squamata, Buchanan-Hamilton, in Lambert, Genus Pinus, ii. 17 (1824); Don, Prod. Fl. 



Nepal. 55 (1825); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2504 (1838); Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 18 



(1847); Koch, Dendrologie, ii. pt ii. 121 (1873). 

 Juniperus religiosa,* Royle, I/lust. Him. Plants, i. 351 (1839) (name only). 

 Juniperus densa, b Gordon, Pinet. Suppl. 32 (1862). 

 Juniperus recurva, Don, var. squamata, Parlatore, in De Candolle, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 482 (1868); 



Brandis, Forest Flora N.W. India, 536 (1874), and Indian Trees, 694 (1906); Hooker, Fl. 



Brit. India, v. 647 (1888); Masters, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bol.) xxvi. 543 (1902). 

 Juniperus morrisonicola, Hayata, in Gard. Chron. xliii. 194 (1908), in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, xxv. 



art. 19, p. 211, fig. 7 (1908), and xxx. art. i. p. 307 (1911), and in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 



xxxviii. 298 (1908). 

 Sabina squamata, Antoine, Cupress. Gatt. tt. 89, 90 (i860). 



A shrub, with long decumbent stems, running over and under the surface of the 

 ground, from which arise numerous short erect branches. Young branchlets green, 



' According to Loudon, Trees and Shrubs, 1089 (1842). Seeds were subsequently sent home to Kew by Hooker in 1850. 



2 It is known in some nurseries as./, repanda, Hort. ex Carriere, Conif. 27 (1867). 



3 Figured by Earl Annesley, Beautiful and Rare Trees, 54 (1903). 



* This is identified withy, squamata by Hooker, Fl. Brit. India, v. 647 (1888). 



4 Gordon's account is confused, as he states that the berries are three-seeded ; otherwise his description applies to 

 J. squamata. 



