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TbrancUets and peculiarly bright, sharp-pointed leaves; Waukegan or 

 Trailing Juniper (611) — J.horizonta,lis (J.S.prostrata), — aprooumhent; 

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

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



— tamariscifblia — : has more ascending branches vrith many linear slightly 

 curved dark green leaves usually in 3's ; Speckled Juniper — 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 Juniper — Juniperus chi- 

 nfesis — is usually a tree to 60 feet but 

 is often shrub-like, among which latter 

 Golden Chinese Juniper (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 ; Procum- 

 bent Chinese Juniper — prociimbens 



— 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 — aurea — is acutely pyrami- 

 dal, and according to the nurserymen, 

 more erect and vigorous than the so- 

 called 



Golden Japan Juniper (616) — 

 Juniperus jap6nica (J. chin^nsis) 

 atirea. These both retain their deep 

 golden color even through the winter. 



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



Fig. 621. — Spreading English Yew. 



TAxus. 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 wdth their scarlet berry-like fruit. (Yellow-berkied Yew — Taxus 

 bacc^ta friictu liiteo — has, as the name shows, yellow berries.) The 

 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 silveiy 

 lines. 



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

 (617) — Taxus baccto — and the American Yew or GWUNP Hemlock 



