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hardy with us, and the most graceful and pendulous of ever- 

 greens. Our best specimen (Fig. 93) has been planted ten 

 years — it is nearly six feet high, though only a few inches 

 when set out. We find it transplants badly and recovers slowly, 

 and when necessary to be moved, should be balled in winter, or 

 moved with greatest care. It takes several years to get under 

 way, and often dies back from sun, but, when once started, suc- 

 ceeds admirably. 



J. oceidentalis (Western juniper). — We doubt very much if 

 Syn. the variety is, in this country, correct, at any rate we 



J.exceisa. ij^ve no returns about it; and if here at all it may 

 be under its synonym of excelsa, with which it, and many other 

 junipers, are frequently confciunded. It is found, at an eleva- 

 tion of five thousand feet, on the Klamet mountains in Oregon, 

 and also on the Eocky mountains, where it becomes an um- 

 brella-shaped tree of forty feet, with a pretty silver bloom'; it 

 will, no doubt prove quite hardy here. 



J. oxycedrus (Prickly juniper) This variety is reported as 



Syn. hardy in Jersey. Our plants are out for the 



J. monspeiiensinm. fiygt winter, and we cannot, therefore, report 

 upon them now. It is found on the Apennines, at an elevation 

 of three thousand feet, in France, also in Spain, and Por- 

 tugal. Our specimens are attractive from being more or less 

 glaucous on both sides of their leaves ; the branches are angu- 

 lar and rather pendant ; it grows eight to ten feet high, and its 

 berries are used in flavoring gin. 



J. PhcBnicia (Phcehician juniper). — This species, forming a 

 bush of fifteen to twenty feet in height, of a beautiful pyramidal 

 shape, is found on the rocks along the shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean, near Nice and Calabria. We have favorable reports 

 of its hardihood from New Jersey ; we have not tried it. There 

 is another variety, J. P. Lycia (Lycian juniper), a much smaller 

 bush than the preceding, and greener foliage, originating in the 

 Levant, but also found, according to Prof. Pallas, in Siberia — 

 it having been introduced in the Eussian gardens as junipervs 

 davurica. This is the juniper from which the gum called 

 olibanum is collected, so much used for incense in religious 

 ceremonies on the Continent. This, no doubt, will prove hardy 

 in the United States 



