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Lawson's, are very lovely in Europe, but they do not 

 succeed in the Middle States of the United States. 

 The junipers, on the other hand, are equally attractive 

 and in many cases do well, though one of the best of 

 them, the Irish juniper, does not succeed in the Middle 

 States. Its narrow pyramidal form makes it a valuable 

 plant in grouping. The American pyramidal forms, the 

 red cedar and its varieties, are almost always hardy; yet 

 what plant is absolutely hardy? 



The red cedar is as effective in lawn planting as the 

 celebrated Italian cypresses, which do not grow here. 

 There are more or less trailing forms of juniper, Juni- 

 perus canadensis, the Savin juniper and its variety of 

 great beauty, tamariscifoUa, and also quite as trailing 

 are Juniperus squamata and Juniperus procumbens, 

 aU excellent to use in connexion with rocks or along 

 borders of streams. The Japanese and Chinese juni- 

 pers are nearly all good and do not grow out of size. 

 They have most picturesque and elegant forms. Some 

 of them are Juniperus chinensis, Juniperus pfitzeriana, 

 and Juniperus japonica. There is a blue Virginia cedar 

 called tripartita that is excellent for planting near 

 rocks. It has a wild and rustic look and is irregular and 

 spreading in habit. The entire juniper family is most 

 valuable on the lawn. 



Among the spruces (the Piceas) the old Picea excelsa, 

 the common Norway spruce, is not proving altogether 

 satisfactory, as the years go on, but generally its prox- 

 imity to the seashore will be found to be the cause of its 

 failure, or it may have been grown too far south. The 



