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close to the ground. One of the best garden coni- 

 fers. 



The Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria Japonica, is 

 the dominant avenue tree in its native country and 

 popular for planting in coastal California but it 

 will not endure the heat of our interior valleys. It 

 grows rapidly near the coast but is of loose habit. 



A horticultural variety of the Japanese cedar, a 

 smaller but handsomer tree, is known as C. elegans 

 and is not surpassed in fitness for California gar- 

 dens in general by any small evergreen tree. It 

 seldom grows to twenty feet. 



Juniperus Bermudiana is the only one of many 

 species that grows well in California. It grows 

 rapidly from the very first though its ultimate height 

 is not more than forty feet. For a spreading ever- 

 green of medium growth the Bermuda juniper ranks 

 well in all of California. A dwarf species is J. 

 Sabina, known as the Sabine juniper, and is a 

 spreading shrub of value for planting in poor soils, 

 rockeries, etc. There is also a prostrate variety 

 that grows flat on the ground, a fine rough covering 

 for terrace banks and places of similar needs. 



Two so-called cedars are general favorites, one, 

 Libocedrus Chilensis, is known as the Chilean cedar 

 and the other, L. decurrens, as the incense cedar. 

 Both are large spreading trees of handsome appear- 

 ance, but the incense cedar, native to California and 

 Oregon is one of our most stately evergreens and 

 one of the best for park or garden. 



One of the Japanese yews, Podocarpus macro- 

 phylla, has foliage somewhat like the oleander, 

 though narrower. It is a small, spreading tree of 

 fine appearance and worthy of extensive garden 

 use, somewhat of an oddity among coniferous trees. 



Taxus baccata is the English yew so extensively 



