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A MANUAL 0I> TRE CONIFEEJ:. 



Juniperus canadensis. — A dwarf spreading bush of inelegant 

 habit, seldom exceeding a yard in height, found in Canada, 

 Labrador, and the territory around Hudson's Bay, where it may be 

 regarded as the representative of the common European Juniper, 

 which it much resembles, especially the Alpine form (J. 

 communis nana), "but it is easily distinguished from it by its 

 much narrower, sharper pointed, and paler foliage, and by the 

 silvery band on the upper surface." * 



It is a useful plant for the rock garden, but is frequently much 

 infested with red spider. 



Juniperus communis.— The common Juniper of Britain and the 

 Europeo- Siberian region, over which it is spread, from Norway to 

 Kamtchatka. As a species, it varies exceedingly according to the 

 latitude and the elevation at which it is found. In valleys and 

 lowlands it attains the dimensions of a tree 20 feet high ; on 

 mountain slopes and on exposed hill sides, it is a dense shrub 

 from 3 . to 5 feet high ; and at the highest elevations and in the 

 highest latitudes at which it occurs, it is a procumbent bush 

 rising but a few inches above the ground. In Great Britain " it 

 is a common bush, with long, narrow, sharp-pointed leaves, which 

 are concave and glaucous on the upper side, but convex and 



* Gordon, Pindum, p. 129. 



