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home, thus saving themselves from the agony of seeing their 
loved ones deposited in the grave. 
It is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when 
Sunday funerals will be dispensed with and more simplicity 
exercised in the conduct of burials. 
There should be laws making it obligatory on the proprie- 
tors of new towns to provide acres for parks, school grounds, 
and cemeteries. The cemeteries should be carefully laid out, 
areas reserved for ornamentation with trees and shrubs, and 
made so attractive that visitors should regard its visible 
beauties and restfulneess as a promise of the now invisible 
beauties and peace of the life to come, until they can exclaim 
with the poet : 
‘‘Lord of the leaf and tree, 
When ’tis time for my going, 
Leafing time let it be, 
Neither snowing nor blowing! 
“After that journey taken 
Let me open my eyes 
To woods by a May wind shaken, 
Full of the birds’ replies.” 
Garden Plants— Their Geography— XCIII. 
Co niferales Continued. 
JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS. (AEPINA AUREA?) 
Juniperus, Cont. — J. communis on the continent of 
Europe often attains to a tree of 40 feet high, 
and it is a little remarkable that it is rarely met with in 
the States other than as a dwarf. It has a number of 
varieties, several of which have golden variegation, and 
these, together with the familiar fastigiate glaucous 
forms known as Irish, Swedish, Spanish, etc., are large- 
ly planted, the latter more largely than they deserve, 
for thev suffer a good deal from snow, and- often ap- 
pear in a deplorable condition. J. C. Cracovia, the 
Polish juniper, although kept in New York nurseries, 
seems but little planted. In European gardens it grows 
up to 15 feet high. The handsome creeping golden 
form shown in the illustration is commonly attributed 
to J. communis, but I don't know if it has been veri- 
fied by fruiting specimens. I find the Kew Conifer 
Guide fails to give North America as the habitat of 
communis, while they speak of J. Sabina procumbens 
as the “Waukeegan Juniper.” Perhaps Mr. Douglas 
can tell us from what species he derived this very 
pretty variety ? There are a number of pretty varieties 
of J. Sabina, native and otherwise. J. pseudo-sabina 
also has several hardy forms, especially those from the 
regions towards Siberia. 
There are a number of species which may be em- 
ployed further South and on the Pacific coast, such as 
oxycedrus, macrocarpa, excelsa, procera, thurifera and 
drupacea with large “edible” fruit. There are a few 
Mexican species, too, for milder climates. A Juniperus 
Kanitzii figures in European books as a “hybrid” be- 
tween communis and thurifera, but then European bot- 
anists may be drawing on their imaginations — they do 
sometimes. 
Microcachrys tetragona is a Tasmanian shrub with 
fruit like a small raspberry in appearance. 
Saxegothea conspicua is a monotypic tree from 
Southern Chili of a very intermediate character. Lind- 
ley described it as having the habit and leaves of a yew, 
the spiked male flower of a Podocarp, the female of an 
Agathis, the fruit of a Juniper, and the seed of a Da- 
crydium. James MacPherson. 
Gardening 
JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS FASTIGIATA. 
