JUNIPER BUSH. 



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" And now arriving at the isle, he springs 

 Oblique, and landing with subsided wings, 

 Walks to the cavern 'twixt the tall green rocks. 

 Where dwelt the goddess with the lovely locks. 

 He paused ; and there came on him, as he stood, 

 A smell of citron, and of cedar- wood. 

 That threw a perfume all about the isle ; 

 And she within sat spinning all the while. 

 And sang a lovely song, that made him hark and smile." 



Odyssey, book v. translated by L. Hunt. 



The Bermudas Cedar was first cultivated in England 

 in the year 1700, by Lord Clarendon. 



The Chinese Jumper, Juniperus Chinensis, is a mere 

 shrub. 



The common savine, Juniper sabina, French savinier^ 

 cedre a feiiilles de cypres, Italian sahina, is a native of 

 the Levant and of the South of Europe. In this country- 

 it is from three to five feet high at full growth. The 

 leaves are short, the berries of the same colour as those 

 of the common Juniper, but smaller. The whole plant 

 has a strong unpleasant scent when handled. There is a 

 variety with variegated leaves. Turner speaks of two 

 kinds, a larger and a smaller, of which he had seen the 

 latter in England, and the former in a " preacher's gar- 

 den in Germany Professor Pallas says, that in the 

 Chersonesus Taurica it is often seen with a trunk a foot 

 in diameter. 



Tournefort says, that in some places this is burnt as 

 common fuel : " L'isle d'Amorgos manque de bois ; on 

 n'y brule que de Lentisque, et du Cedre a feuilles de 

 cypres, que la feu devore en un instant*." " The isle of 

 Amorgos has little wood; they burn nothing there but 

 Lentiscus and the common savine, which the flames de- 



* Tournefort's Travels, vol. i. p. 287. 



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