282 A MANUAL OF THE CONIFER*. 



The Savin and its varieties are essentially mountain plants, and 

 thrive best in light soil in sunny and airy situations. The common 

 Savin is a useful plant for the background of the rockery and for 

 variety in the shrubbery. 



Juniperus Sabina tamariscifolia is a low trailing plant of 

 neater habit, and with foliage of a brighter green than the type. 



Juniperus Sabina variegata has many of its branchlets creamy- 

 white or pale yellow, which gives the plant a spotted or chequered 

 appearance. It is a useful shrub for the rockery and winter 

 bedding. 



Juniperus squamata is a decumbent creeping shrub, much 

 branched and spreading, rarely exceeding a yard in height. The 

 branches are furnished with numerous short stiff branchlets, clothed 

 with rigid, sharp pointed, scaly leaves, generally in threes, very 

 persistent, and glaucesce'nt. 



Habitat. — The Himalayas, chiefly in Nepaul and Thibet, at eleva- 

 tions of from 10,000 to 15,000 feet. 



Introduced into England in 1824. 



Juniperus thurifera. — A small tree, with an erect, tapering, 

 slender trunk, furnished with short branches, which are spreading in 

 the lower portion of the tree and ascending in the upper portion, 

 giving it an elongated conical form tapering to a sharp point. 

 The branches are much divided into small spray covered with 

 minute, scale-like, greyish-green leaves in opposite pairs, and clasp- 

 ing the stem when mature, but slightly spreading in the young 

 growth. 



Habitat. — Spain on the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia ; Portugal 

 near Cape St. Vincent ; Algiers near Medina.* 



Introduced in 1752 by Miller. 



Juniperus virginiana is the Eed Cedar of gardens and shrub- 

 beries. It shows much diversity in habit and foliage, varying in 

 size from a dwarf bushy shrub to a tree with an erect trunk 50 

 to 60 feet high, and in colour from a deep glossy green to a light 

 glaucous green, with many intermediate shades, tinged with red, 



* Prod., xvi., p. 487. 



