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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



Fruit globular, glaucous brownish-violet with 2-3 seeds ; the scale 

 leaves without notches and blunt at tip. Cuinese Jlniplk (009) 

 — Juniperas chinensis. 



Fruit small, glaucous, brownish, 1-2-seeded on short straight 

 stems ripening the first year ; leaves very small and sharp-pointed. 

 ViRGiNiAX Jumper or Rei> Ceuau — Juniperus virginiana. 

 Fruit larger, light blue, pendulous, borne on curved stems, 1-4- 

 seeded, ripening the second year ; low spreading shrubs with 

 strong disagreeable odor when bruised. Savin or Shrubby Red 

 Cedar or Juniper (CIO) or Waukegan Juniper (Oil) or 

 Tamarisk-leaved Juniper (012) — Juniperus Sabina. 



Of the above species, com- 

 munis, chinc^'usis, virginiana, and 

 Sabina have most of the dwarf 

 varieties. AVith the fruit there 

 w ill be but little difficulty in cor- 

 rectly naming them, but without 

 the fruit there will be much 

 trouble. Sabina can be readily 

 separated by its odor from virgin- 

 iana, which it most resembles. 

 Below are given most of the va- 

 rieties that are shrubby. 



— Prostrate Juniper, 



Curved-branched Jun 



(()08) — Juniperus recurva — 

 shrub or tree to 30 feet. It has dwarf varieties of which the lowest 

 Prostrate Juniper (013) — 

 scjuamata, — has prostrate or trail- 

 ing branches, leaves straight and 

 slightly spreading, of a glaucous 

 bluish green color; Dense- 



BRAN<"HED JuNIPER d^IlSa liaS 



short crowded branchlets and 

 curved grayish green leaves. 



Common Juniper (007) — Juni- 

 perus communis — in its tree form 

 ranges from 20 to 30 feet but is 

 often a shrub of 4 to 5 feet; 

 Rounded Juniper — hemi_ 

 sph.erica — is, as its name indi- 

 cates, a rounded shrub with many 



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- is a 

 one. 



Spreading Juniper, 



