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white flowers in terminal cymes ; but a good hawthorn pleases 

 me better. 



Jasminum goes without saying. J. primilinum is a handsome 

 Chinese species near to J. nudiflorum, but a shy bloomer with me. 

 J. beestanum, the red jasmine, is not exciting. It grows as fast on 

 a wall as any of them, and flowers generously with small dull 

 crimson blossoms. J. polyanthum for the greenhouse I know only 

 by repute. It is an exquisite pink and white climber from Yunnan. 



Juniperus takes many attractive forms for a small garden and 

 I esteem these little trees highly. J. bermudiana furnishes the 

 wood of our so-called " cedar " pencils, and Nicholson records 

 that it is rarely seen in England ; but few others are tender and 

 the dwarf varieties make a precious addition to the rockery. I 

 suppose there are fifty in cultivation, and of these among the few 

 that dwell with me, I specially commend^, communis hibernica nana y 

 a delightful, little upright tree. It lives with Chamcecyparis filifera 

 aurea, and they make a lovely harmony in blue and gold. The 

 juniper of my picture has towered to the dizzy height of twenty-two 

 inches. J. c. hibernica compressa is even more sublime. This is 

 the least of all conifers. J. pachyphlcea is another treasure, as blue 

 as the sky and of graceful bearing. J. Sabina, the Savin, is an 

 ornamental dusky juniper ; and the weeping variety, especially 

 good. J. virginiana, the red cedar, in its various forms, is also 

 valuable, J. virginiana globosa being a specially precious pigmy. 

 There are many other most worthy species of small juniper, 

 notably a small variety collected by me as a seedling in Switzer- 

 land. It is quite common, but I have yet to learn its proper name. 



