186 CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 
Of the wood uses of the Libocedri we only get such 
sketchy descriptions that are hardly worth producing. 
We hear of them being used for shingles, as are many 
of their tribe. If some day wooden shingles come 
into demand for the more ornamental annexes of 
houses, for verandahs or porches, and take the place 
of the old heavy but picturesque stone tile, all these 
sorts of Cupressinee wood may be sought after and 
have their day in the markets of the world. 
JUNIPERS 
(OF THE NATURAL ORDER OF CONIFER, oF THE 
FAMILY PINACE, oF THE TRIBE CUPRESSI- 
NE, OF THE SUB-TRIBE JUNIPERINA) 
The birch-tree swang her fragrant hair, 
The bramble cast her berry, 
The gin within the juniper 
Began to make him merry. 
TENNYSON, Old Amphion (1857 ed.), 
THE origin of the name Juniper is to be traced 
to the Latin words juvenis (young) and the verb— 
parere (to produce). Presumably it was so named 
on account of a curious habit that it displays, in many 
of its species, of producing two entirely different- 
looking sets of leaves upon the same tree—namely, 
the gossamer-looking, awl-shaped, acicular young or 
juvenile leaves, and the mature, appressed-to-the- 
stem, Cypress-in-appearance, adult foliage. The 
French call the tree Genévrier, or Geniévre, and from 
the first syllable of this word a spirituous compound, 
familiarly known in all alcoholic circles by the labelled 
title of. Gin, derives its name, as if in mutual obligation 
and acknowledgment of the fact that the drink 
derives the benefit of its flavour from the fruit of the 
tree. 
Nor is it a tree without its little accompaniment 
