143 2 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



2. Var. Sargenti, Henry (var. nova). 



Juniperus procumbens, Sargent, Forest Flora Japan , 78 (1894), and in Garden and Forest, x. 421 (1897) 

 (not Siebold). 



A sea : shore plant, 1 forming dense mats, and sending out for long distances 

 prostrate creeping stems, which bear foliage similar to that of J. chinensis : 

 branchlets tetragonal, covered with minute scale-like appressed leaves, furrowed on 

 the back ; no acicular leaves being present on adult plants. Berries bluish, 

 covered with a slight glaucous bloom ; seeds three, like those of J. chinensis. 



This is said by Sargent, who has kindly sent a dried specimen, to grow on the 

 coasts of Korea and Japan, on low grassy bluffs freely exposed to the ocean gales. A 

 few plants were raised in the Arnold Arboretum from seeds gathered in 1892 near the 

 Aino village of Horobetsu on the coast of Yezo. I have seen no living specimens. 



III. The following varieties are of horticultural origin : 



3. Var. albo-variegata, Veitch, Man. Conif. 288 (1881). 



A compact shrub, differing from the type in many of the branchlets being creamy 

 white at the tips. It usually bears adult scale-like foliage ; but a form with acicular 

 foliage is also in cultivation. It is said to have been first introduced from Japan by 

 Fortune, and subsequently by J. Gould Veitch. It is known by several names, as 

 var. variegata, Fortune ; var. argentea, Gordon ; and var. argenteo-variegata, Rehder. 



4. Var. aurea, Young, ex Gard. Chron. 1872, pp. 8, 1193. 



An upright form, with adult scale-like foliage, having the whole of the young 

 growth suffused with a deep golden yellow, which gradually turns green in the 

 summer. The colour is heightened by exposure to the sun. This originated in 

 Maurice Young's nursery at Milford, Godalming, where the original plant was 

 12 ft. high in 1872, and when Elwes saw it in 1909 was still a small tree. 

 The best specimens we know of this are at Burnham Park, the residence of 

 Sir Harry J. Veitch, and are about 18 ft. high. 



5. Var. japonica aurea, Masters, in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. xiv. 211 (1892). 

 Juniperus japonica aurea, Carriere, Conif. 32 (1867). 



A straggling shrub, with long decumbent branches ; branchlets tinged with 

 golden yellow. This is said to have been first introduced by Fortune from Japan, 

 and subsequently by J. Gould Veitch. 



6. Var. japonica aureo-variegata, Masters, in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. xiv. 21 1 (1892). 



Juniperus japonica variegata, Carriere, Conif. 31 (1867). 



A dense dwarf shrub, with many of the branchlets of a deep golden yellow. 

 Also of Japanese origin. 



7. Var. Pjitzeriana, Spath, Catalogue, No. 104, p. 142 (1899). 



A broad pyramidal shrub, with dense horizontal branches, and long and slightly 

 pendulous branchlets, clothed with glaucous foliage. This originated in Spath's 

 nursery at Berlin, where the original plant was 10 ft. high in 1901. 



8. War. japonica, Vilmorin, in Hortus Vilmorin. 58 (1906). 



Juniperus japonica, Carriere, Conif. 31 (1855). 



1 J. Thunbergii, Hooker and Arnott, Bot. Beecheys Voyage, 271 (1841), gathered in the Liu Kiu Islands, is 

 represented at Kew by a specimen with acicular leaves, which bears no fruit. It cannot be identified with certainty ; but 

 may be a form of^. ckiiiensh. 



