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Georgia; the second is quite hardy with us; and we have no 

 report from any other place. It resembles very much the 

 Chinese Juniper, and it is often confounded with Cupressus 

 torulosa. It obtains its name from its wood being burned in 

 temples on festivals, and also from being used in cedar pencils. 



It is a native of Nepaul, where it rarely descends below an 

 altitude of ten thousand feet; above an elevation of fifteen 

 thousand feet, it degenerates into a scraggy bush ; while in 

 favorable situations, it forms a large, magnificent tree of sixty 

 to eighty feet. It gets its name of religiosa from being usually 

 employed for the Buddhist temples, and in their religious 

 ceremonies. 



J. sapina (the Common savin), a low, loose-growing bush, 

 not, as it strikes us, particularly handsome, growing six or 

 seven feet high, and native of the Lower Alps, Appenines, and 

 the Altain and Taurian mountains. There is another and 

 prettier variety, J. s. variegates (Variegated savin), with its 

 leaves curiously striped or blotched with yellow, and inter- 

 mingling with the green, making a striking contrast. We 

 have grown these many years without any protection. 



J. squamata (Scaly-leaved juniper), a large, procumbent, 

 many branched shrub, growing four or five 



*Tdumosa Lambertina. feet hi S h > and 7 spreading, from the 

 mountains of Nepaul and the Bhotan Alps, 

 also in Cashmere. It seems to thrive on the loftiest mountains 

 at elevations of eleven, twelve, and even fifteen thousand feet, 

 forming extensive beds or masses like carpets, covering im- 

 mense spaces ; the foliage is a bright, vivid green, and large 

 glossy, purplish black fruit. 



The finest specimen we know in this country, and one of 

 the most extraordinary and striking objects we ever saw among 

 evergreens, is the J. squamata, at Woodlawn, N. J., Mr. 

 Field's (Fig. 94), which was obtained from Mr. Buist, in Phi- 

 ladelphia, in the spring of 1851 ; and though only seven years 

 planted, is now a bush of twenty-nine feet in circumference, 

 having one leading shoot which, after ascending perpendicu- 

 larly four and a half to five feet, as suddenly descends again 

 at an acute angle to the ground, resembling somewhat an 

 elongated ox-bow, the lower branches radiating from the stem. 



