288 A MANUAL OF THE CONIFERS. 



Introduced in 1804.* 



The Chinese Juniper is one of the most useful of small evergreen 

 trees for the shrubbery and for ornamental planting generally ; for 

 single specimen for small lawns the mas form should be preferred. 

 It is quite hardy, and thrives in every description of soil not too 

 wet. 



Juniperus chinensis aurea.— A beautiful and distinct variety, 

 having the whole of its young growth suffused with deep golden- 

 yellow. The colour is heightened by full exposure to the sun. 



It originated from a male plant in the Nurseries of Mr. Maurice 

 Young, at Milford, near Godalming. 



Juniperus chinensis albo-variegata has its foliage more 

 glaucous than the species, with numerous twigs, and many of its 

 terminal shoots pure white. The plant is of dwarf compact habit. 



It was introduced to British "gardens by Mr. Eobert Fortune from 

 Japan. 



Juniperus japonica is probably an alpine form of J. chinensis. 

 It is a dwarf bush, sometimes with only a single stem, but 

 oftener with a divided one ; in the latter case the branches 

 or divisions of the stem assume a procumbent habit. The leaves 

 are at first acicular, very close set, arranged in threes, bright 

 green beneath, and distinctly marked with two silvery glaucous lines 

 above; on the adult plants they are scale-like and bright green. 



Juniperus japonica aurea has the growth of the current 

 season tinged with golden-yellow, which gradually changes to 

 light green. The primary branches in this variety are few, and 

 produced at irregular intervals; they are robust and long in pro- 

 portion to the height of the trunk or principal stem, decumbent 

 and straggling, and densely clothed with spray and foliage. 



Juniperus japonica aureo-variegata is quite distinct from the 

 preceding, both in habit and colour. It is a dense dwarf shrub, 

 having many of the branchlets and terminal growths of a deep 

 golden-yellow. 



* Carriere, Traite Gintral des Conifires, p. 31. 



