504 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



J. prostrata (Prostrate-branch juniper). This interesting 



species, so well known all over the Middle and 



j.repens, Northern States, need hardly be described; 



j. humihs, \y\\\\ us it is a common road-side plant, and 



J. sabina prostrata. ,1.1- - i 



very much neglected m consequence. We do 

 not really know a finer object than this juniper, well grown in 

 ornamental grounds where it has ample space to develop itself 

 There are two specimens at Mr. Field's in Princeton, truly 

 superb, resembling immense great evergreen beds, not over 

 two feet high, but thirty feet in circumference. 



J. recurva (Weeping Indian juniper). This is certainly a 

 Syn , very charming variety, and we wish we could say 



J. Nepaiensis. ft j s perfectly hardy ; with us, heretofore, in the 

 winter, it becomes very shabby and dingy, having much the 

 clouded look produced by the web of the red spider ; this, how- 

 ever, is where it has been exposed to the winter's sun. We 

 have now some specimens planted in a wood, and well pro- 

 tected, which we hope may do better. 



Mr. Hogg writes us that at Yorkville, when sheltered, it may 

 be regarded as hardy ; and this is reported also from Flushing, 

 L. I., and in New Jersey ; at Washington it did well until in 

 jured by the winter of 1855-6. The only unqualified return of 

 entire success is from Augusta, Ga., where it is grown without 

 trouble. J. recurva densa is the male form of this variety ; with 

 us, the male is more dwarf, and of much closer and thicker 

 habit. The plant itself originates in Nepaul and in Bhotan, at 

 an elevation of eight to ten thousand feet, where it makes a 

 small and beautiful tree ; at greater elevation it becomes a 

 straggling bush. 



/. religiosa (the Pencil or Incense juniper). We believe 

 x yn there is no question of the hardihood of this 



J. cxceisa. juniper; although no Indian conifer seems to 



^y'unlpeVof 6 the have been more confus ^ than this specie* 



American nur- We presume, however, that the J. excelsa (the 



Tall juniper) of our American nurseries is 



not properly the /. excelsa of the Indian botanists, which is the 



true /. religiosa. The first is undoubtedly hardy, becoming a 



handsome, pyramidal tree, thirty to forty feet high; a native of 



the islands in the Grecian Archipelago, Syria, Armenia, and 



