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branchlets pendulous. There is an excellent specimen of this 

 variety in the Arnold Arboretum. Var. Kosteriana forms a 

 wide-spreading bush and bears a strong resemblance to the 

 variety of the Chinese juniper known as Pfitzeriana, the general 

 branching habit of both forms being much alike, Var. Koster- 

 iana in time will probably not exceed five feet in height, and 

 with its graceful spreading branches it is a most important 

 decorative plant for gardens. A low prostrate form of the red- 

 cedar, which is said not to grow more than eighteen inches high 

 on some cliffs on the coast of Maine, has been introduced to the 

 Arnold Arboretum. If it retains this habit in cultivation, it 

 will be a most important low juniper. At the annual meeting of 

 the New York State Horticultural Society, January, 1923, at 

 Rochester, an excellent display of coniferous and other ever- 

 greens was made by the State Agricultural College, Cornell 

 University, in charge of Ralph W. Curtis. He showed a low, 

 dense, bushy form of the red-cedar which he discovered growing 

 on the hills a few miles north of Ithaca. It was not more than 

 two feet high and was evidently an old plant. Curtis has named 

 it provisionally nana, and as this name does not seem to appear 

 in any cultivated forms of the red-cedar, it will probably 

 stand. This will likely become an important plant in gardening. 

 The Chinese juniper, Junijperus chinensis, native of north- 

 eastern Asia, in the typical form does remarkably well in 

 cultivation. The habits of the pistillate and staminate forms 

 are quite distinct; the staminate is more robust and faster 

 growing, with a pyramidal habit; the pistillate or fruit-bear- 

 ing form has a looser habit and evidently does not grow so 

 large. The brownish-yellow fruit is very attractive throughout 

 the winter months. Many species of junipers have two tj^pes of 

 leaves — scale-like and acicular (needle-shaped) . This is marked 

 in the Chinese juniper. Var. Pfitzeriana is one of the most 



