JUNIPER.-JUNIPERUS. 



In Botany, a Genus of the Di&cia Monadelphia 

 Class. Natural Order, Conifers. 



THE earliest mention of the juniper-tree will 

 be found in the first book of Kings, about 

 906 years before the Christian era, when the 

 prophet Elijah took refuge in the wilderness 

 of Beersheba, to avoid the persecution of 

 King Ahab. " He went a day's journey into 

 the wilderness, and came and sat down under 

 a juniper-tree: And as he lay and slept under 

 a juniper-tree, behold then an angel touched 

 him, and said unto him, Arise and eat." 



The juniper is also a native of most of the 

 cold mountainous parts of Europe. Gerard 

 says, " The common juniper-tree grows, in 

 some parts of Kent, unto the bigness and 

 stature of a fair great tree/' It is found 

 growing wild in considerable quantities on 

 many parts of the Sussex and Surrey hills, 



