JUNIPERS tor 
others). This doubling of the leaf character (called 
dimorphic) may, at first sight, appear as not quite a 
fair impost upon the intellectual department of the 
student. One set of leaves he might regard as quite 
a sufficient task upon his energies and capabilities. 
As it so happens, quite the contrary is the fact. 
This habit turns out to be really a great convenience 
in discerning.the nature of the plant, and as between 
it and a Cypress. When his practised eye observes 
the unmistakable acicular leaves of the Juniper in 
small branches, nestling among the mature foliage, 
he at once dissociates from his mind any Cypress 
confusion, and feels grateful to the members of the 
Sabine group that when they commence their age 
of the sere and yellow they still retain, like many a 
human prototype, the semblance of youth, and do 
not at one bidden moment from the clock of Time 
cast away all juvenile associations and youthful 
reminders. Hereby they constitute a glorious ex- 
ample to all lords and ladies of the higher creation, 
in their life’s progress towards the serener stages of 
the Middle Ages. 
If we were to make a few general remarks on a few 
of the Junipers perhaps most commonly seen amongst 
us, we should venture the remark that probably of 
the Sabine, Virginiana, Chinensis, and Excelsa were 
most likely to be met with in the more frequented 
paths of life. The Virginiana is a tree and the 
Sabina a shrub, or at most a shrub-like tree in.its best 
arborescent form, and as such distributes an unap- 
preciated smell, and the J. Virginiana lacks any. 
The J. Excelsa from the Virginiana is a hard matter 
to dissociate, very hard. The acicular foliage in the 
case of J. Excelsa in a cultivated, not wild, state often 
makes no show. The real difference is that the- fruit 
is larger and contains more seeds. But this is a 
worked-out, and not one of those every-day apparent 
