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sions, and is really a magnificent tree, generally attaining 

 a, height of from 50 to 75 feet, although Madden mentions 



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a solitary specimen, growing- in tho neighborhood of one 

 of the Indian temples, that measured 100 feet high, and 

 was 13 feet in circumference, 5 feet from the ground. 



The specific name was given on account of the reverence 

 in which it is held in India by the Buddhists. For pur- 

 poses of incense the young twigs are coated with goats- 

 grease 1 , and burned in the temples on important festive 

 days. The scent of the wood, foliage, and berries, is 

 highly aromatic, but they are exceedingly nauseous to the 

 taste. The wood is of the same color as that of many 

 other species that are used in the manufacture of lead 

 pencils, and would doubtless answer the same purpose, it 

 being of a peculiar cinnamon-red, as well as soft and fine- 

 grained. 



Our experience with this species as an ornamental plant 

 is very limited in regard to out-door cultivation, although 

 we have had it in pot culture for several years ; but in the 

 collection of H. "NY. Sargent it is entirely hardy. This 

 tree, when perfectly healthy, and in a suitable locality, 

 grows rapidly, and assumes much the same character that 

 distinguishes the handsome depress us t orulosa. The main 

 body of the tree is straight and smooth, with the branches 

 very numerous, and curving gracefully at the extremities. 



14. J, Siihiua. Linnaeus. SAVIX JUXIPER. Leaves, 

 small or medium, oval, awl-shaped, acute, imbricated. 

 Branches, ramified, spreading, with a reddish-brown bark. 

 Fruit, small, oval, or globular, very smooth, dark purple 

 color, mostly monospermous. 



A native of the mountains of Europe on the Alps, 

 Apennines, and Pyrenees ; as Avell as in the northern sec- 

 tions of North America iu Canada, &c. It belongs to 

 the trailing class of Junipers, although an upright form is 

 occasionally met with. The branches are very numerous, 



