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little top, that it will be likely to stand till it falls 

 from sheer old age. Close to it is another, whose 

 main stem was broken down about five feet from the 

 ground; now, what was the head rests on the earth 

 nine feet away, and a circle of its outspread branches 

 has become a wholesome group of young upright 

 growths, while at the place where the stem broke, the 

 half-opened wrench still shows as clearly as on the 

 day it was done. 



Among the many merits of the Juniper, its tenderly 

 mysterious beauty of colouring is by no means the 

 least; a colouring as delicately subtle in its own way 

 as that of cloud or mist, or haze in warm, wet wood- 

 land. It has very little of positive green ; a suspicion 

 of warm colour in the shadowy hollows, and a blue- 

 grey bloom of the tenderest quality imaginable on the 

 outer masses of foliage. Each tiny, blade-like leaf has 

 a band of dead, palest bluish-green colour on the 

 upper surface, edged with a narrow line of dark green 

 slightly polished ; the back of the leaf is of the same 

 full, rather dark green, with slight polish ; it looks as if 

 the green back had been brought up over the edge of 

 the leaf to make the dark edging on the upper surface. 

 The stems of the twigs are of a warm, almost foxy 

 colour, becoming darker and redder in the branches. 

 The tips of the twigs curl over or hang out on all sides 

 towards the light, and the " set " of the individual twigs 

 is full of variety. This arrangement of mixed colour- 

 ing and texture, and infinitely various position of the 



