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branchlets and peculiarly bright, sharp-pointed leaves; WAUKE<;.\N or 

 TRAILING .1 TNI PER (01 1) J. horizontal is (.I.S. pros! rat a ), a procumbent, 

 trailing or rarely ascending shrub, the lc nig branches being much divided 

 into short branehlets, the leaves bluisli ; TAMARISK-LEAVED JDNIPEB (<'>!:.') 

 tamariscifolia has more ascending branches with many linear slightly 

 curved dark green leaves usually in o's ; SPECKI.I.D JUMPKI: \ariegata 



i.-3 a dense dwarf with the tips of the youngest growths cream-white, 

 which gives it a speckled appearance, the leaves are mostly si ale-like. 



CHINESE JUMPER Juniperus chi- 

 nensis - is usually a tree to 50 feet but 

 is often shrub-like, among which latter 

 GOLDEN CHINESE JUNIPER ((J09) 

 aurea has the whole growth of the 

 year a golden yelli>\\, especially bright, 

 if growing in the sun, this changes 

 to a green the second year ; PROCUM- 

 BENT CHINESE JUNIPER procumbens 



is often procumbent with elongated 

 branches and short branchlets, in the 

 young growths, the leaves are linear 

 and spreading, but in the older parts 

 scale-like. The dwarf golden ever- 

 green aurea is acutely pyrami- 

 dal, and according to the nurserymen, 

 more erect and vigorous than the so- 

 called 



GOLDEN JAPAN JUNIPER (616) 

 Juniperus jap6nica (J. chine'nsis) 

 aurea. These both retain their deep 

 golden color even through the winter. 



[Seeds, 2-3 years to germinate ; twig cuttings under glass.] 



FIG. 621. Spreading English Yew. 



Taxus. The YEWS are desirable evergreens for park and cemetery 

 planting, and are of slow growth. They are densely clothed with dark 

 Liven linear leaves, aild the pistillate plants are especially beautiful in the 

 fall with their scarlet berry-like fruit. (YEL LOW-BE RRIEI> YEW --Taxus 

 baccata fructu luteo has, as. the name shows, yellow berries.) The 

 leaves are linear and sharp-pointed, in shape and attachment much like 

 the hemlocks, but the undersides of the leaves of the yews are a lighter 

 though bright green, while the, hemlock leaves are whitened by silvery 

 lines. 



The two species in cultivation with dwarf forms are the ENGLISH Yi w 

 (617) Taxus baccata and the AMERK.VX YEW or GROUND HEMLOCK 



