502 LANDSCAPE GAEDENING. 



/. communis (Common juniper). — This plant, which is the 

 a,„. ordinary juniper of Europe, is not the same as 



J. Cracovia. the /. communis, or Canadensis of this country. 

 garifl. j^ .^ found generally on the Continent, and in 

 England, a loose, spreading tree or bush, of twelve to eighteen 

 feet high ; while on tops of mountains it becomes a straggling 

 shrub. There are three varieties of the common European or 

 English juniper, all well known, and- cultivated in the United 

 States, viz. : 



/. communis Sueciea (Swedish juniper). — A native of Nor- 

 way, Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, a conical, upright growing 

 bush, of from twelve to twenty feet, very hardy, we believe, in 

 every part of the country. 



/. communis Hibernica (Irish juniper). — A neat, pretty, 

 slender v&riety, found on the mountains of Ireland, more 

 upright and delicate than the. Swedish, though resembling it. 

 It sometimes suffers with us from the sun in midsummer, but 

 rarely from the cold, and this we see by our returns, is its 

 character generally. 



/. communis compressa — which we imported some years 

 since, as Hispanica, or Spanish juniper — seems quite as hardy 

 with us as either of the other varieties, being compact and close 

 in its habit, but with a less vivid green ; it comes from the 

 Apennines. There is another Spanish juniper, called J. thu- 

 ripera, from the mountains of Spain, forming a dense, handsome, 

 pyramidal tree, tapering to a point, and growing to the height 

 of thirty feet, which we also find entirely hardy. 



/. Japonica (Japan juniper) — is a small, hardy, bush from 

 Syn. the mountains of Japan, not growing ovei 



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one or two leet high, and distmct. 

 /. nana (the Dwarf juniper). — Common all over Europe, 

 Syn. England, Scotland ; seldom growing over one foot 



J. Aipina, high, but spreading. It is so often taken for J. 

 and eight Canadensis of this country, as to be constantly con- 

 others, founded and grown for It. 



J. ohlonga pendula (Weeping juniper) — unquestionably the 

 8yn. most attractive of the junipers ; a small tree 



I. pendula vera. q^^^^^ j^ twenty feet high, from the Haione 

 ridge of mountains in the island of Niphon in Japan ; perfectly 



