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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
J. prostrata (Prostrate-branch juniper). — This interesting 
Syn species, so well known all over the Middle and 
J. repens, Northern States, need hardly be described ; 
J. humihs, with us it is a common road-side plant, and 
very much neglected in consequence. We do 
not really know a finer object than this juniper, well grown in 
ornamental grounds where it has ample space to develop itself 
There are two specimens at Mr. Field’s in Princeton, truly 
superb, resembling immense great evergreen beds, not over 
two feet high, but thirty feet in circumference. 
J. recurva (Weeping Indian juniper). — This is certainly a 
S yU ' very charming variety, and we wish we could say 
J. Nepalensis. ft ft perfectly hardy ; with us, heretofore, in the 
winter, it becomes very shabby and dingy, having much the 
clouded look produced by the web of the red spider ; this, how- 
ever, is where it has been exposed to the winter’s sun. We 
have now some specimens planted in a wood, and well pro- 
tected, which we hope may do better. 
Mr. Hogg writes us that at Yorkville, when sheltered, it may 
be regarded as hardy ; and this is reported also from Flushing, 
L. I., and in New Jersey ; at Washington it did well until in 
jured by the winter of 1855-6. The only unqualified return of 
entire success is from Augusta, Ga., where it is grown without 
trouble. J. recurva densa is the male form of this variety ; with 
us, the male is more dwarf, and of much closer and thicker 
habit. The plant itself originates in Nepaul and in Bhotan, at 
an elevation of eight to ten thousand feet, where it makes a 
small and beautiful tree ; at greater elevation it becomes a 
straggling bush. 
J. religiosa (the Pencil or Incense juniper). We believe 
there is no question of the hardihood of this 
juniper ; although no Indian conifer seems to 
have been more confused than this specie s 
We presume, however, that the J. excelsa (the 
Tall juniper) of our American nurseries is 
not properly the J. excelsa of the Indian botanists, which is the 
true J. religiosa. The first is undoubtedly hardy, becoming a 
handsome, pyramidal tree, thirty to forty feet high ; a native of 
the islands in the Grecian Archipelago, Syria, Armenia, and 
Syn. 
J. excelsa. 
[Perhaps the tall 
Juniper of the 
American nur- 
series.] 
