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and an almost globular habit. Var. Hoveyi is similar to globosa, 
but more ovate in outline. r. 1 also a globose form, b 
with the branches much flattened, the foliage dark green above, 
bluish underneath ar. umila has a dense habit with dark 
Thuja orientalis, often called Biota orientalis, is a beautiful 
evergreen, but it is not so hardy as Thuja occidentalis and needs 
a well-sheltered toes ie for its successful cultivation. For this 
reason it is a slow grower in this latitude, so that most of the forms 
with bright yellow Pe changing later to yellowish green. 
One of our td the American hemlock, 
Tsuga canadensis. There are eval dwarf forms of this which 
widely spreading flat-topped shrub with long spreading branches 
eae are aaa as a the tips, the irregularities in the surface 
of the broad fl a beautiful modulation of shades 
of green. 
BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS 
Azalea amoena. A fine shrub of low growth and spreading 
habit, with flowers of a rosy purple, the leaves assuming a bronze 
tint in the fall which continues through the winter. Var. 
Hinodegiri is similar to the above, but the flowers are of a bright 
scarlet and much more attractive—to be preferred of the two. 
