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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS cbyptomebia 



screens &c., while the creeping form is 

 handsome, traihng over boulders of rock 

 in large rock gardens. Among other 

 forms may be mentioned the following dis- 

 tinct ones : — /. procumbens {J.prostrata ; 

 J. repens), a native of Canada and the 

 N. United States; is a variety with a 

 creeping spreading habit, and glaucous 

 leaves. The variety tamariscifolia [J. 

 sahinoides), sometimes called the ' Carpet 

 Juniper,' is an elegant trailing bush, with 

 bright green foliage. The variety variegata 

 has its branchlets distinctly and prettily 

 variegated with creamy white or pale 

 yellow, and retains its character much 

 better in partially shaded positions. 

 Culture do. as above. 



J. sphsrica (/. Fortunei) A native 



of N. China, with an upright habit, tufted 

 branches and greyish-green scale-like 

 leaves. The berries are roundish in 

 shape and are often foimd in great pro- 

 fusion on some branches but not on others. 

 The variety glauca or Sheppardd is dis- 

 tinguished by its stiff needle-lilte sharp- 

 pointed leaves, which become very glaucous 

 or silvery white in autumn. 



Culture dc. as above. 



J. thurifera (FranJcincense Juniper). 

 A handsome pyramidal tree 15-25 ft. high, 

 native of Spain and Portugal, with an 

 erect slender tapering trunk and a pyra- 

 midal habit. The numerous slender and 

 much-divided branches are densely clothed 



with pale glaucous green awl-shaped 

 leaves arranged in opposite pairs. 

 Culture dc. as above, 



J. virginiana [Bed Cedar). — k. very 

 ornamental tree vridely distributed 

 throughout the United States, where it 

 grows in such widely different situations 

 as dry gravelly ridges and limestone hills, 

 or near the coast in deep swamps, and 

 attains a height of 80-90 ft., but is often 

 reduced to a low shrub. It has a pyra- 

 midal habit, and its branches, at first 

 erect, ultimately bend down, and have 

 numerous crowded branchlets, covered 

 with awl-hke scaly imbricating leaves. 

 In the British Islands it does not usuaUy 

 grow more than 15-20 ft. high, but at 

 Studley Royal, in Yorkshire, the seat of 

 the Marquis of Eipon, there is a very fine 

 aged specimen over 70 ft. high. There 

 are several varieties of the Eed Cedar, in- 

 cluding white (albo-variegata) and golden 

 variegated (aureo-va/riegata) and weeping 

 (pendula) ones ; also bedforddana, a 

 handsome form, once distributed as /. 

 gossavnthaimeama, having long slender 

 drooping branches; elegans, afree-growing 

 variety spotted with creamy white ; 

 glauca — the Silver Cedar — a pretty pyra- 

 midal tree, thickly branched upwards 

 from the ground, and remarkable for the 

 whitish or glaucous appearance of its 

 young growths ; other more or less 

 distinct forms are horizontalis, Jiumilis, 

 Schotti, and tripartita. 



Culture dc. as above. 



Tribe II. — Taxodidm Teibe {TaxodAece). — Large trees with evergreen or 

 deciduous leaves spirally arranged, but apparently in two or more rows, or in tufts. 

 Flowers monoecious. Cones globular or oblong, more or less woody, with scales 

 spirally arranged. Seeds 2-6 to each scale, erect or inverted, winged. 



CRYPTOMERIA (Japan Cbdae). base. The brittle branches are spreading. 



A genus of evergreen trees with alternate 

 linear leaves spirally arranged and ii-regu- 

 larly 3-4-sided. Male catkins numerous, 

 collected in clusters at the ends of the 

 branches ; female ones usually solitary, 

 or 2-3 together. Cones almost globular, 

 solitary or in clusters, somewhat prickly 

 when ripe. Seeds erect, 4-5 to each scale, 

 slightly winged. Seed leaves 2-4, leafy. 

 First leaves in whorls of threes. 



C. japonica (C. Fortunei ; Cupressus 

 ja^jonica ; Taxodium japonicum). — An 

 elegant Japanese tree with a beautiful 

 straight tapering trunk, and in a wild 

 state attaining a height of 130-150 ft. 

 high, with a diameter of 4-5 ft. at the 



the lower ones being deflexed, but ascend- 

 ing at the tips, and having numerous 

 bright green branchlets covered with stiff 

 incurved spirally arranged leaves 6-9 in. 

 long, decurrent at the base. Cones 

 roundish, about ^ in. in diameter. There 

 is a very fine specimen about 45 years old, 

 and about 70 ft. high, at Coollattin Park, 

 CO. Wicklow. 



C. japonica is now considered to 

 be the only species, the other plants in 

 cultivation being varieties of it. Of these 

 elegans is a beautiful tree with short 

 horizontal branches and branchlets droop- 

 ing at the ends, and covered with flat 

 linear softish leaves, chaimelled on both 



