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Leaves awl-shaped, lanceolate, sharp -pointed, and spreading ; light 

 or dark greyish, glaucous, silvery, or shining green, in colpur. 



Berries, comparatively small, roundish, oblong, or conic ; and light 

 or dark purple in colour. 



The only forms or varieties of it requiring notice here are the following : — 



ECHINOFORMIS : The Hedgehog-like Juniper. 



A very pretty, dwarf, dense, little bush; healthy young plants 

 of it much resembling a hedgehog in appearance. 



HiBERNIC A : The Irish Juniper. 



This is a handsome, compact-growing, pyramidal, large shrub, or 

 small tree. And of this, again, we have a Compressa, or Spanish form, 

 which is still more erect and compact in its habit of growth, and like- 

 wise darker in the colour of its bark. Also a Variegata, having some 

 of the leaves and spray variegated. Usefid, hardy, and beautiful 

 shrubs. 



Nana : The Dwarf Common Juniper. 



This is the Alpine or mountain form : a curious, spreading, creeping, 

 pygmy, scarcely ever rising higher than half a yard from the ground. 



RUFESCENS : The Shining-Berried Common Juniper. 



This is most plentiful in Southern Europe. It forms a pretty bush, 

 from five to ten feet high, and broAvnish -green in appearance. There 

 is of this, again, a Breoifolia, or smaller-leaved form, found in the 

 Azores and contiguous Islands. 



SuecICA: The Swedish Common Juniper. 



This is closely related to the Irish and Spanish Junipers, but some- 

 w^hat less compressed in its branches, and more conical in form, and 

 growing to heights ranghig from ten to tAventy feet ; and of this kind 

 there is also a Variegata variety, having some of its leaves and spray 

 variegated. 



JUNIPERUS DruPACEA: The Plum-Fruited Juniper. 



This is one of the most distinct, constant, and beautiful of the genus, 

 inasmuch as its leaves are linear, lanceolate, sharp-pointed, spreading, 

 minus footstalks, concave above, with a silvery band on each side of 

 the mid-rib ; convex below, with a conspicuous nerve, and rich green 

 in colour. Generally large, being from a half to one inch long ; while 

 the leaves on the lower sides of the branch stems are the smallest and 

 broadest, and more oval than those on the upper sides, and very regu- 

 larly disposed in six rows on the stem. The berries are from three- 

 quarters to an inch and a quarter long, and from a half to one inch 

 broad ; globular in form, and a rich dark purple in colour, covered 



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