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CUPRESSUS: Cypress 
A genus of tall or medium-sized trees, natives 
of the warmer portions of the North Temperate 
Zone. Growth mainly erect. Foliage consists of 
very small, overlapping, scale-like leaves. Cones 
nearly globular. 
C. arizonica. ARIZONA CYPRESS. 50 ft. Hand¬ 
some tree with brilliant, silvery blue foliar*. Growth 
rather compact with somewhat stout branches. 
Bark red. Similar to Guadalupe Cypress in color, 
but more compact and with straighter, more 
ascending branches. 
C. benthami knightiana. KNIGHT’S CYPRESS. 
Mexico. 70 ft. A tall tree of elegant habit, with 
drooping, feathery and fern-like branchlets, and 
well distinguished by the glaucous, bluish hue of 
its foliage. 
C. guadalupensis glauca. BUUE G! \\ 1 ).\LUPB 
CYPRESS. GO ft. In its form, very rapid growth 
and other respects, except color, this splendid tree 
is unite similar to Monterey Cypress; but the foli¬ 
age is an intense silvery blue. Seedlings vary de¬ 
cidedly. but our stock is always grafted to insure 
maintenance of the rich color. 
C. macrocarpa. MONTEREY CYPRESS. Califor¬ 
nia. 70 ft. The well-known, rapid-growing native 
Cypress. Useful where quick effect is wanted, and 
makes a dense, compact hedge. 
C. macrocarpa lutea. GOLDEN MONTEREY CY¬ 
PRESS. A very beautiful golden-hued variety of 
the Monterey. Color especially pronounced in 
spring and held fairly well through the year. 
C. macrocarpa variegata. VARIEGATED MON¬ 
TEREY CYPRESS. The variegation is very plen¬ 
tiful all over the tree. The creamy yellow mark¬ 
ings mixed with the green make this a very strik¬ 
ing specimen. 
C. sempervirens fastigiata. ITAI.IAN CYPRESS. 
Europe and Asia. 75 ft. A tall, very slender, 
tapering tree with strict branches lying close to 
the stem; much esteemed for lining drives and 
landscape work. 
JUNIPERUS: Juniper 
Mainly small trees of rather slow growth. 
They have two kinds of foliage. One is needle- 
like, prickly, in whorls of three; the other scale- 
like, overlapping and arranged in four rows like 
those of Cypress, which they often closely re¬ 
semble. Most species show both kinds of leaves 
on the same tree; others are limited to hut one 
form. Fruit is a berry, not at all cone-like. 
J. bermudiana. BERMUDA JUNIPER. 40 ft. A 
rapid-growing species with spreading branches. 
Foliage pale bluish green. Bears annually a good 
crop of bright bluish berries. 
J. chinensis. JAPANESE JUNIPER. Asia. GO 
ft. Handsome tree, thickly branched, of dense 
grow tin with glaucous green foliage. 
J. chinensis argenteo-variegata. VARIEGATED 
JAPANESE JUNIPER. Similar in form and habit 
to the Japanese, but is slightly variegated with 
creamy white. 
J. chinensis pendula. WEEPING JAPANESE 
JUNIPER. A very handsome form. Growth erect, 
but the spreading branches all droop at the tips, 
giving the tree a decidedly graceful appearance. 
J. chinensis procumbens. CREEPING JAP¬ 
ANESE JUNIPER. A dense, dwarf shrub with 
trailing branches and glaucous foliage. A fine 
variety. 
J. chinensis procumbens aureo-variegata. GOUD- 
EN CREEPING JAPANESE JUNIPER. A form of 
above; foliage variegated with golden yellow. 
J. communis hibernica. IRISH JUNIPER. A dis¬ 
tinct and beautiful variety of slender, erect, dense, 
columnar growth. Foliage very glaucous. Very 
useful where a tree is needed shaped like Italian 
Cypress, but of slower and smaller growth. 
Cupressus sempervirens fastigiata 
Italian Cypress 
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