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twenty feet. Sargent writes that it is with difficulty transplanted, 
and recovers slowly afterward; but when fairly started succeeds 
admirably. Parsons & Co., at Flushing, have beautiful specimens. 
It requires care and protection while young from summer’s sun as 
well as winter’s cold. Hoopes in his Book of Evergreens states 
that it may be grafted upon the red cedar. If it is durable and 
thrifty as a graft upon that stock, its beauty may be rendered 
quickly available by grafting it not too high on strong young trees 
of this common sort. 
The Chinese Juniper. y sinensis .—This was highly com¬ 
mended six years ago, but is now considered by most planters who 
have tried it to be almost worthless. 
The Canadian Juniper, J. canadensis. The Savin, J. sabina , 
and the Alpine Juniper, J, alpina , are low, broadly spreading 
shrubs, that take up a great deal of room that may be much more 
prettily occupied by other things. 
The Dense Indian Junipers, y. densa, J*. repanda densa, and 
J. recurva densa , are so well confused that we do not know if the three 
botanical names are of different varieties or the same thing. Tne 
species is from the Bhotan or Nepaul country in Asia. A small 
plant seen at Parsons & Co.’s was the most perfect little thing of 
the Juniper family seen there, having a velvety compactness of 
foliage unequalled by any other. The name given to it at the nursery 
is the y. repanda densa. Hoopes does not consider these Junipers 
quite hardy. Sargent makes them hardy at Fishkill. We have 
faith in the one just mentioned merely by reason of its very healthy 
and hardy appearance. Height and breadth three to six feet. (?) 
The Scale-leaved Juniper, y. squamata, has become one of 
the most popular of the family since the publication of the excellent 
engraving in Sargent’s Supplement to Downing’s Landscape Gar¬ 
dening, of a specimen growing in the grounds of R. S. Fields, N. J. 
After seeing the engraving we think most persons will be disap¬ 
pointed in the tree (or rather bush) itself. It certainly makes a 
fine broad mound of the peculiar foliage of the Junipers, but it is 
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