Juniperus 141 5 



says that these trees have trunks almost completely bare of bark, and over a metre 

 in diameter ; and reproduces the photograph of a fine old female tree, which he took 

 in June 1910. Schenck^ also figures a very old tree, with a short bole, a few 

 snaggy branches, and very little foliage. (A. H.) 



It is doubtful if this plant was introduced until recently, as it was not mentioned 

 by Loudon^ in 1838, and was included by Knight and Perry in 1850 amongst the 

 kinds of juniper of which little was known. Kent says that it is not hardy in England ; 

 and the only plant now living at Kew is one in the Temperate House, about 7 ft. 

 high, raised from seed sent by Sir Daniel Morris in 1893. Sir John Ross-ot- 

 Bladensburg, K.C.B., however, informs me that a plant in his garden at Rostrevor 

 survived without protection the winter of 1909- 19 10, which was exceptionally severe 

 in the north of Ireland. As it grew well during the following summer, he looks 

 upon it as hardy; in December 191 1 it was 6 ft. high with a good leader, and 

 slightly pendulous branches. A small plant at Glasnevin bore last winter 12° of 

 frost without injury. 



J. Cedrus is readily propagated by cuttings at Kew ; but there seems to be a 

 great difficulty in raising it from seed.^ Beissner,* however, has raised young plants 

 from seed which I saw in his collection at Bonn in 1908. (H. J. E.) 



JUNIPERUS FORMOSANA 



Juniperus formosana, Hayata, injourn. Coll. Set. Tokyo, xxv. art. 19, p. 209, pi. 38 (1908). 

 Juniperus oblonga pendula^ Knight and Perry, Syn. Conif. 11 (1850); Carribre, Conif. 20 (1867). 

 Juniperus iaxifolia. Masters, vajoum. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 215 (1892), and Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) 



xxvi. 543 (1902) (in part); and in Journ. Bot. xli. 268 (1903) (not Hooker and Arnott) ; Kent, 



YtiicWs Man. Conif. 191 (1900). 



A tree, attaining in China 40 ft. in height. Branchlets triquetrous, with three 

 narrow ridges, yellowish green in the first year, reddish brown in the second year. 

 Leaves all acicular, spreading, in whorls of threes, linear-subulate, about \ in. long 

 and -^ to ^ in. broad, jointed and swollen at the base, ending in a sharp spine-like 



1 Beit. Kennt. Veget. Canar. Inseln, fig. 63, in Wiss. Ergeb. Deut. Exped. 'Valdima,' i8g8-i8gi) (1907). This figure 

 is a reproduction of a photograph taken by Prof. Simony. A figure of a similar tree, also growing on Palma, is given by 

 Webb and Berthelot, Hist. Nat. Isles Canar., Atlas, t. 8 (1838). 2 cf. note 5 below. 



3 Dr. Geo. V. Perez of Orotava, Teneriffe, wrote in Gard. Chron. xl. 14 (1906), and xli. 134 (1907), that none of the 

 seed which he sent to Kew and elsewhere germinated. He finds that seeds, soaked in water at 70° Fahr. for 15 to 30 

 days, germinate freely in about six weeks. Probably germination occurs, under ordinary conditions, in the second year 

 after sowing, or in the wild state after the seeds have been eaten and voided by birds. Correvon, in Gard. Chron. xlii. 209 

 (1907), reports that seeds, which had been soaked in a weak solution of acetic acid, germinated well at Geneva. 



Dr. Perez informs me that Mr. Lister has raised, from seed sent from Orotava, eight plants in the Government nursery at 

 Pretoria, which are now 4 ft. high.— (A. H.) * Mitt. Deia. Dend. Ges. 1906, p. 91. 



5 Knight and Perry's plant is undescribed, but is stated to have come from China and Japan, and is evidently the 

 Chinese species here described, as is confirmed by Carriere's description. It is apparently not the same plant as /. communis 

 oblonga pendula, Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2489, fig. 2345 (1838), applied to a shrub at Kew, then 5 ft. high, with 

 fastigiate branches and pendulous branchlets. Gordon, in Gard. Chron. 1842, p. 652, describes the latter as: "Trained to a 

 single stem, if left to nature, it will not rise more than three feet, but will spread over a large space of ground. It is quite 

 hardy and a native of the Caucasus." Webb, Fhyt. Canar. ii. 277 (1840), identified this plant with/. Cedrus, which is, 

 however, not hardy at Kew. It is impossible now to identify Loudon's plant, but in all probability it was a pendulous 

 variety oij. communis. 



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