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Georgia; the second is quite hardy with us; and we have no 
report from any other place. It resembles very much the 
Chinese Juniper, and it is often confounded with Cupressus 
torulosa. It obtains its name from its wood being burned in 
temples on festivals, and also from being used in cedar pencils. 
It is a native of Nepaul, where it rarely descends below an 
altitude of ten thousand feet ; above an elevation of fifteen 
thousand feet, it degenerates into a scraggy bush ; while in 
favorable situations, it forms a large, magnificent tree of sixty 
to eighty feet. It gets its name of religiosa from being usually 
employed for the Buddhist temples, and in their religious 
ceremonies. 
J. sapina (the Common savin), a low, loose-growing bush, 
not, as it strikes us, particularly handsome, growing six or 
seven feet high, and native of the Lower Alps, Appenines, and 
the Altain and Taurian mountains. There is another and 
prettier variety, J. s. variegatce (Variegated savin), with its 
leaves curiously striped or blotched with yellow, and inter- 
mingling with the green, making a striking contrast. We 
have grown these many years without any protection. 
J. squamata (Scaly-leaved juniper), a large, procumbent, 
many branched shrub, growing four or five 
8y ™' , t . i • feet high, and very spreading, from the 
mountains of Nepaul and the Bhotan Alps, 
also in Cashmere. It seems to thrive on the loftiest mountains 
at elevations of eleven, twelve, and even fifteen thousand feet, 
forming extensive beds or masses like carpets, covering im- 
mense spaces ; the foliage is a bright, vivid green, and large 
glossy, purplish black fruit. 
The finest specimen we know in this country, and one of 
the most extraordinary and striking objects we ever saw among 
evergreens, is the J. squamata, at Woodlawn, N. J., Mr. 
Field’s (Fig. 94), which was obtained from Mr. Buist, in Phi- 
ladelphia, in the spring of 1851 ; and though only seven years 
planted, is now a bush of twenty-nine feet in circumference, 
having one leading shoot which, after ascending perpendicu- 
larly four and a half to five feet, as suddenly descends again 
at an acute angle to the ground, resembling somewhat an 
elongated ox-bow, the lower branches radiating from the stem. 
