GO THE TREE PROPAGATOR AND PLANTER. 



The Savin {Juniperus). 



All the Junipers are desirable evergreens, but Sabina, 

 or the Savin, is peculiarly so. The green Carpet Juni- 

 per, or Savin, is a most desirable plant, and ought to be 

 much cultivated, as ought also the Sabina variegata, for 

 covering embankments, rockeries, dwarf beds, and 

 sloping grounds. These grow so close together and so 

 near to the ground that they well deserve the title 

 given to them, viz. the " Carpet Juniper." It is quite 

 astonishing to me that so few of these are to be found, 

 especially in neighbourhoods abounding with sloping 

 grounds, terraces, and embankments, where the Carpet 

 Junipers would flourish exceedingly well, and last as 

 long as a generation. 



The variegated Carpet Savin is a beautiful thing, and 

 should be freely planted on slopes, rockeries, &c. The 

 propagation of the Savin is by layers, by cuttings, and 

 by seed. The cuttings must consist of ripe young wood 

 inserted under a handlight on a dry shady border. The 

 small cuttings require carefully preparing previous to 

 insertion ; first, select the half-ripened young wood an 

 inch or two long ; cut them below the joint where they 

 are connected with the old wood, at right angles through 

 the connection, with a keen-edged budding-knife, trim 

 off the leaves, &c, and then insert them in fine sandy 

 peat and maiden loam, made solid by pressing it 

 together, and make the surface quite smooth and firm. 

 Place them 1 inch asunder, and set a good handlight 

 over them, after having watered them to settle the soil 

 well to them. 



By the following spring (the cuttings being put in 

 during the autumn, about September) they will have 

 made root, which will be indicated by a fresh point of 

 \oung wood, when air must be given them, and by the 

 autumn they may be potted off into 60-size pots, and 

 plunged on a dry border. • 



In the following spring they may be shifted into 4- 

 inch pots, and plunged into a shady border. 



By Seed. — All the Junipers may be raised by seed 



