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branches and crowded branolilets, the leaves whitish above and distinctly- 

 ridged below ; Spkeading Junipee (614) — ntoa — is an almost prostrate 

 shrub with thitekish much-divided 

 branchlets sometimes forming circu- 

 lar patches 10 feet in -diameter, the 

 leaves short, incurved, almost cover- 

 ing the stems, often considered a 

 separate species — Juniperus nana; 

 Douglas' Golden Juniper (615) — 

 canadensis atirea- — is similar to var. 

 nana, but more erect and the leaves 

 longer and narrower, with tips of 

 branchlets golden yellow ; . Oblong 

 Juniper — obldnga — is a large shrub or small 

 tree with slender somewhat pendulous branches 

 having longer and more spreading bright green 

 leaves; Weeping Common Juniper — p^ndula — 

 is a lower bush with still more pendulous branch- 

 Jets. 



Virginian Juniper or Red Cedar — Juniperus 

 virginitoa — is the tallest of the junipers, some- 

 times reaching the height of 100 feet, but it has 

 a number of dwarf varieties of which Dwarf Virginian Juniper — 

 dum6sa — is about the lowest, growing into a rounded or pyramidal bush, 

 it has many close-set ascending branches 

 with generally linear bright green leaves ; 

 Weeping Virginian Juniper ■ — p^ndula 

 — has weeping branchlets with many 

 bright green scale leaves ; Creeping Vir- 

 ginian Juniper — r^ptans — is bright green 

 with horizontally spreading branches and 

 more erect branchlets. 



Savin Juniper (610) — Juniperus Sa- 

 bina — is, like the last, one of the native 

 American species, but instead of growing 

 tall is always a low shrub, rarely reaching 

 the height of 10 feet. Almost all of the 

 dwarf forms of Juniperus virginiana are 

 duplicated in this species. The one test 

 that will separate them is the very strong 

 and, to many, disagreeable odor of the 

 Among the named varieties are: Procum- 

 - a nearly prostrate shrub with numerous erect 



Fig. fil5. — Douglas' 

 Golden Juniper. 



Va^"^*-' 



Fig. 616. — Golden Japan 

 Juniper. 



bruised leaves of Sabina. 

 BENT Juniper — humilis- 



