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rect taste, this stylo of gardening is now almost obsolete. 

 In wild, rocky landscapes, and for covering rough, unsightly 

 features on a lawn, this species may be the means of creat- 

 ing excellent effects ; but as a specimen plant, we would not 

 recommend it. True, a bed of young plants, owing to 

 their healthy, vigorous growth, and peculiar, sombre-hued 

 foliage, presents an attractive appearance, but as they grow 

 older, this effect is considerably marred by their ragged 

 aspect, and hence their beauty is lost, and the tree can 

 only be valuable as adding to a picturesque, rugged 

 scene, and should not be used on an ornamental, well- 

 kept lawn. 



The medicinal properties of the Savin Juniper have 

 long been known. The ancients used it as a diuretic, and 

 for cleansing ulcers. 



Var, cupressifolta, Alton. CYPRESS-LEAVED SAVIX. 

 This very distinct and attractive plant has been classed by 

 Gordon as a synonym of the species, but as to habit they 

 are quite distinct. That authority says : " This is a name 

 mostly applied to the female form of the Common Savin, 

 which in general grows much taller and more robust than 



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the male form of the species." With iis this variety is 

 very decided in its character, having much lighter colored 

 foliage, with more slender branchlets, and less rambling 

 in growth than the true form of the species. The foliage 

 of this variety in a perfectly healthy specimen is of almost 

 a silvery glaucous hue, and much more desirable than the 

 Common Savin. 



Var, tamariscifolia, Alton. TAMARISK-LEAVED 

 Syn. J. Sabinoides, Griseb. This is classed by Gordon 

 as a distinct species. Our plants lead us to support the 

 classification of Aiton, that it is nothing more than a mere 

 form of the Savin Juniper, with longer and only halt- 

 opened leaves. Both this variety and the one preceding 

 it, according to London, " were in cultivation in British 



