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EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
scarcely more than a mound for quite a number of years, though it 
eventually assumes a pyramidal form. Where one has room for 
shrubs of much breadth and little height, the squamata is one of the 
best. The foliage presents a roughly broken surface and a prickly 
appearance when the plants are young, but with age becomes dense, 
and smoother in outline, and then breaks well into light and shade. 
The Creeping or Prostrate Juniper. J. repens {% pros¬ 
trata , y. recumbens \—This is a true evergreen creeper which 
spreads in every direction, and covers the ground with a deep 
velvety mat of dark green foliage. It forms a rich carpet for rocks 
which have but little soil upon them, and does best in partial shade. 
There are fine specimens in the Central Park. Height from six 
inches to two feet. Hoopes mentions that the aphis or plant lice are 
particularly injurious to this species, and sometimes kill them in 
one season. He recommends sprinkling the plants frequently with 
hot (?) tobacco water until the insects are destroyed. 
The Incense or Sacred Juniper, y. religiosa .—This becomes 
a large tree in its native Nepaul. Sargent considers it hardy at 
Fishkill, but makes no mention of it as a beautiful or especially 
desirable sort. It is simply on trial. 
The Cedar of Lebanon. Cedrns libani .—The interesting 
religious associations of this tree, its great size and grand lateral 
expansion of head, so much more noble in this respect than most 
of our northern evergreens, and the fact that some of the most 
beautiful specimens in the world are those which have been planted 
in England within the last two hundred years, have all tended to 
make every planter desire a Cedar of Lebanon in his collection. 
Yet it is by no means one of the most beautiful evergreens when 
young. Both in contour and branch-lines it is rigidly formal 
during the first fifty years of its growth, the outline being conical- 
ovate, and the branching rather horizontal; and it develops the 
peculiar tabular expansion of its top and grand lateral sweep of 
branches only as it approaches a century or more of growth. The 
foliage in general appearance resembles that of the Juniper family. 
