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hardy with us, and the most graceful and pendulous of ever- 
greens. Our best specimen (Fig. 93) has been planted ten 
years — it is nearly six feet high, though only a few inches 
when set out. We find it transplants badly and recovers slowly, 
and when necessary to be moved, should be balled in winter, or 
moved with greatest care. It takes several years to get under 
way, and often dies back from sun, but, when once started, suc- 
ceeds admirably. 
J. occidentalis (Western juniper). — We doubt very much if 
Syn. the variety is, in this country, correct, at any rate we 
J. exceisa. h ave no returns about it ; and if here at all it may 
be under its synonym of exceisa, with which it, and many other 
junipers, are frequently confounded. It is found, at an eleva- 
tion of five thousand feet, on the Klamet mountains in Oregon, 
and also on the Rocky mountains, where it becomes an um- 
brella-shaped tree of forty feet, with a pretty silver bloom ; it 
will, no doubt prove quite hardy here. 
J. oxycedrus (Prickly juniper). — This variety is reported as 
Syn. hardy in Jersey. Our plants are out for the 
J. monspeliensium. fi rs j- w i n ter, and we cannot, therefore, report 
upon them now. It is found on the Apennines, at an elevation 
of three thousand feet, in France, also in Spain, and Por- 
tugal. Our specimens are attractive from being more or less 
glaucous on both sides of their leaves ; the branches are angu- 
lar and rather pendant ; it grows eight to ten feet high, and its 
berries are used in flavoring gin. 
J. Phoenicia (Phoenician juniper). — This species, forming a 
bush of fifteen to twenty feet in height, of a beautiful pyramidal 
shape, is found on the rocks along the shores of the Mediter- 
ranean, near Nice and Calabria. We have favorable reports 
of its hardihood from New Jersey ; we have not tried it. There 
is another variety, J. P. Lycia. (Lycian juniper), a much smaller 
bush than the preceding, and greener foliage, originating in the 
Levant, but also found, according to Prof. Pallas, in Siberia — 
it having been introduced in the Russian gardens as junipervs 
davurica. This is the juniper from which the gum called 
olibanum is collected, so much used for incense in religious 
ceremonies on the Continent. This, no doubt, will prove hardy 
in the United States. 
