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■faranchlets and peculiarly bright, sharp-pointed leaves ; WAnKEGAN or 

 Trailing Juniper (611) — J.horizontaiis (J.S.prostrata), — a procumbent, 

 trailing or rarely ascending shrub, the long branches being much divided 

 into short branchlets, the leaves bluish ; Tamarisk-leaved Jdniper (612) 



— tamariscifblia — has more ascending branches with many linear slightly 

 curved dark green leaves usually in 3's ; Speckled Jdniper — variegata 



— is a dense dwarf with the tips of the youngest growths cream-white, 

 which gives it a specklea appearance, the leaves are mostly scale-like. 



Chinese Jdniper — Jijniperus chi- 

 n^nsis — is usually a tree to 50 feet but 

 is often shrub-like, among which latter 

 Golden Chinese Jdniper (609) — 

 atirea — has the whole growth of the 

 year a golden yellow, especially bright 

 if growing in the sun, this changes 

 to a green the second year ; Procuji- 

 eent Chinese Jdniper — procfSmbens 



— is often procumbent with elongated 

 branches and short branchlets, in the 

 young growths, the leaves are linear 

 and spreading, but in the older parts 

 scale-like. The dwarf golden ever- 

 green — atirea — is acutely pyrami- 

 dal, and according to the nurserymen, 

 more erect and vigorous than the so- 

 called 



Golden Japan Jdniper (616) — 

 Juniperus japdnica (J. chin^nsis) 

 atirea. These both retain their deep 



golden color even through the vrinter. 



Fig. 621. — Spreading English Yew. 



[Seeds, 2-3 years to germinate ; twig cuttings- under glass.] 



Tdxus. The Yews are desirable evergreens for park and cemetery 

 planting, and are of slow growth. They are densely clothed with dark 

 green linear leaves, and the pistillate plants are especially beautiful in the 

 fall .with their scarlet berry-like fruit. (Yellow-berried Yew — Taxus 

 bacc&,ta friictu liiteo — has, as the name shows, yellow berries.) Tbe 

 leaves are linear and. sharp-pointed, in shape and attachment much like 

 the hemlocks, but the undersides of the leaves of the yews are a lighter 

 though bright green, while the hemlock leaves are whitened by sUveiy 

 lines. 



The two species in cultivation with dwarf forms are the English Yew 

 (617) — Taxus baccita — and the America.n Yew or Ground Hemlock 



