192 CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 
signs of difference that sets our minds at rest and 
at a glance restores confidence. We must content 
ourselves, if puzzled, with the-reflection that they 
are probably the same tree but of different geo- 
graphical habitat. One, the J. Virginiana, hails from 
the swampy lands of North America ; while the other, 
the Excelsa, comes from the higher regions of the 
eastern hemisphere. Some of them are very rare. 
The Pachyphloea, and some of its acicular, silvery, 
juvenile-leaved varieties, have of the last few years 
been sent out by nurserymen, and so far as we hear— 
though in its arborescent form they were rather dis- 
credited by long-ago experience—they have endured 
well a few years of life, and even survived the extreme 
winter severities of 1915-16 and 1916-17. Many 
varieties of the Sabine, in particular, are constantly 
seen in rock gardens, and not only of the Sabine but 
‘varieties of the acicular-leaved J. Communis. Of the 
latter, a variety more rightly entitled compressa, but 
more regularly, and at the same time with irregu- 
larity, designated as Hibernica, a name upon which 
the fastigiate Irish Juniper claims a prior call. Of 
the Oxycedri, Bean recommends especially the Com- 
munis and its varieties Compressa and Fastigiata, 
and the Drupacea. We could not obtain advice 
from a better authority. One more word on this 
J. Communis. E. Wilson describes ‘its habitat, or 
accomplishment of its territorial occupation, as 
“ Circum-Polar,” a word certainly of a far-ranging 
ring, that would almost seem to fit in with a modern 
Prussian sense of appropriation. 
I must not close the chapter on Junipers without 
reference to the long, acicular-leaved (nearly an inch 
long) J. Drupacea. It has not so far produced 
fruit in England. As the tree is dicecious it must be 
presumed that we only possess male specimens. 
A short time ago I received a branch and some fruit 
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