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branchlets and peculiarly bright, sharp-pointed leaves; Waukegan or 

 Trailing Juniper (611) — J. horizontalis (J.S. prostrata ), — a procumbent, 

 trailing or rarely ascending shrub, the long branches being much divided 

 into short branchlets, the leaves bluish; Tamarisk-leaved Juniper (012) 



— tamariscifolia — has more ascending branches with many linear slightly 

 curved dark green leaves usually in 3's ; Speckled Juniper — variegata 



— is a dense dwarf with the tips of the youngest growths cream-white, 

 which gives it a specklea appearance, the leaves are mostly scale-like, 



Chinese Juniper — Juniperus chi- 

 n^nsis — is usually a tree to 50 feet but 

 is often shrub-like, among which latter 

 Golden Chinese Juniper (009) — 

 atirea — has the whole growth of the 

 year a golden yellow, especially bright 

 if growing in the sun, this changes 

 to a green the second year ; Procum- 

 bent Chinese Juniper — procumbens 



— is often procumbent with elongated 

 branches and short branchlets, in the 

 young gro^vths, the leaves are linear 

 and spreading, but in the older parts 

 scale-like. The dwarf golden ever- 

 green — aurea — is acutely pyrami- 

 dal, and according to the nurserymen, 

 more erect and vigorous than the so-' 

 called 



Golden Japan Juniper (616) — 



Juniperus japdnica (J. chin^nsis) 



aurea. These both retain their deep 



1, 1 ^, 1 ^1 • ^ Fig. 621. — Spreading English Yew. 



golden color even through the winter. ^ & & 



[Seeds, 2-3 years to germinate ; twig cuttings under glass.] 



T^xus. The Yews are desirable evergreens for park and cemetei^ 

 planting, and are of slow growth. They are densely clothed with dark 

 green linear leaves, and the pistillate plants are especially beautiful in the 

 fall with their scarlet berry-like fruit. (Yellow-berried Yew — Taxus 

 bacc^ta fructu liiteo — has, as the name shows, yellow berries.) The 

 leaves are linear and sharp-pointed, in shape and attachment much like 

 the hemlocks, but the undersides of the leaves of the yews are a lighter 

 though bright green, while the hemlock leaves are whitened by silvery 

 lines. 



The two species in cultivation with dwarf forms are the English Yew 

 (617) — Taxus baccata — and the American Yew or Ground Hemlock 



