LEAVES AND FLOWERS OF BERBERRY. 



HOW TO KNOW THE SHRUBS 

 GROWING IN BRITAIN— V 



With Notes, descriptive and photographic, for their Identification 

 in all Seasons of the Year 



By HENRY IRVING 



THE JUNIPER THE BERBERRY 



THE TAMARISK 



THE JUNIPER 



THIS is a conifer. Though to a 

 popular view its fruit would 

 seem to be a berry, being neither 

 conical in shape nor cone-like in structure, 

 but, on the contrary, round and succulent, 

 yet its true character is that of a cone. 

 It is, however, the only cone of its kind. 

 The habit of the Juniper shows con- 

 siderable variation. It may be a small 

 tree. It is usually a shrub, upright with 

 ascending stems, or low and flattened with 

 spreading and even prostrate branches. 

 It has remarkable power of adaj^tation to 

 varying conditions of position and altitude, 



soil and climate. With us, on the whole, 

 it seems to prefer the dry, sunny, and 

 open slopes of the chalk hills, where its 

 scattered tufted bushes are frequently 

 a marked feature. Lacking the spiked 

 branches of the Gorse, it is, however, well 

 protected against browsing animals by 

 the al)undance of its stiff and sharply 

 spinous foliage. Its slender stems, irregu- 

 larly but pr(jfusely branched and twigged, 

 with close-set multitudinous evergreen 

 leaves, make it an ideal shelter for 

 numerous small birds at all seasons. The 

 bluish or greyish green of its general aspect, 

 very particularly noticeable in early 



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