TREES AND SHRUBS 



Native of Southern Chile ; introduced by Messrs. A^eitch, 1860. Generic name 

 from Gr. pons, podos, a foot ; karpos, a fruit, the fruits in most species having a 

 foot-stalk. Syn. Podocarpus andijia. 



CHINESE JUNIPER, Juniperm chinenm. 



Parks, gardens. April. The most beautiful of the Junipers, the male 

 plants growing erect, and the female specimens being more spreading in habit. 

 The Junipers are propagated by cuttings of young branches in sandy soil in 

 cold frame or under handlight in September or October ; seeds in light soil in 

 cold frame in April, transplanting into pots when 2 inches high, planting out a 

 year afterwards. 



Floivers usually dioecious ; 31ale catkins very numerous, bright orange- 

 yellow ; Females axillary, bracteate ; Fruit baccate, very small, variable in 

 shape, glaucous, violet-brown, 1-2-seeded. 



Leaves in male form in whorls of 3, lanceolate, acute, stiff, channelled 

 upper side, convex below, glaucous or bright green, without foot-stalks ; on 

 female plants in twos, opposite, four-rowed, scale-like, ovate, acute, oblong 

 sunken gland on back, closely imbricated ; the leaves are often much alike on 

 both sexes when young, and when mature exhibit transition from one form to 

 another. 



An evergreen tree, 20 ft. ; Branches in males numerous, irregularly alternate, 

 spreading, higher ones nearly erect ; in females scattered, spreading, smaller ones 

 quadrangular, seldom forked, often pointing downwards. 



Introduced from China and Japan in 1804. 



SAVIN, Juniperus Sabina. 



Gardens, rockwork. April. Thrives best in hght soil and dry situations. 

 F/oxvers dioecious; Fruit a berry (galbule), oval, smooth, generally 

 1-seeded, blackish-purple, somewhat glaucous, about size of small currant, 



in. diam. borne on recurved peduncle-like branchlets. 



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