74 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 



upright slender habit and branches shghtly diverging, is a very 

 decorative plant. The Irish juniper, var. hihernica, and the 

 Swedish juniper, var. suecica, suffer in severe winters. The 

 former has a strict, narrow, columnar habit. The Swedish 

 juniper is also quite narrowly upright, but the ends of the 

 branchlets droop slightly. Both of these junipers are likely 

 to be pulled apart and their prim stiff forms much injured by 

 heavy snowstorms. It is necessary to support them with 

 stout iron poles driven deeply in the ground and kept out of 

 sight in the interior of the mass. When tied securely outside the 

 branches they resist the destructive tendencies of heavy snow- 

 storms, and the poles are left undisturbed throughout the year. 



Juniperus rigida, native throughout various parts of north- 

 eastern Asia, bears a strong resemblance in its foliage to the 

 common juniper. As it grows in the Arnold Arboretum, perhaps 

 twelve to fifteen feet tall, it is highly ornamental with an 

 ascending loose pyramidal habit and the branchlets pendulous 

 at the tips. Experience seems to show that it requires moist 

 good soil to do well. 



Juniperus squamata, from western China and the Hima- 

 layas, is a low form with prostrate stems and scale-like, linear, 

 much-crowded leaves, grayish-green, with two white bands 

 above. This juniper is likely to suffer in a very cold winter, 

 unless it is buried in snow. At one time the late Timothy 

 McCarthy, superintendent of Swan Point Cemetery, Provi- 

 dence, Rhode Island, used J. squamata in large quantities as 

 an edging for rhododendrons and also as a mass against groups 

 of stone bowlders, with excellent effects. Var. Fargesii is an 

 arborescent form said to attain a height of seventy feet in 

 western China. The plants in Highland Park are still small, 

 but they show a tree habit and appear to be quite hardy in an 

 exposure of several winters. 



