PINACEAE 
Next to the rock work in importance and even more important unless 
the rocks are good, and the construction excellent, are the members 
of the pine family. They are not at all difficult. Good loam; good 
drainage. Here we grow them in the open to the surprise of our 
English visitors. Where sun is savage a light shade is beneficial. In a 
general way, the low, more prostrate forms should be planted at high 
elevations in the rock garden to conform to wind-swept slopes of 
mountains. The slender spire-like and pyramidal small trees should 
progress up the slopes to represent the tree-clad hills below tree-line. 
The rounded domes and weeping forms are best as accents by them- 
selves or against a rock. At any time of year they add character that 
is beyond color to the rock garden. They grow to be extremely old. 
Some are known to be close to a hundred years. 
Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana Elwoodii. A beautiful slow-growing form, 
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the ultimate branches recurving; foliage very glaucous blue. 75c. 
L. Fletcheri. A fluffy bluish pyramidal tree, eventually six feet-——too 
large for most rock gardens. 50c. 
L. minima. 14 in. A flatter than round glossy dark green bush with 
twisted branches. $1.00. 
obtusa nana gracilis. One of the handsomest and proudest dwarfs; 
3 ft. after ages, twisted branches of dark glossy green. $1.90- $2.00 - 
$3.00. 
Golf Ball Cypress: Mr. Murray Hornibrook tells how these tiniest of 
coniferous trees originated: They appeared first from a lot of seedlings 
from an old Chamaecyparis obtusa nana gracilis in the nursery of 
Messrs W. H. Rogers of Southampton. Sixteen-year old plants are 
said to measure about 4x 4 in. 
. oj. caespitosa. Tiny and compact with layer upon layer of branches. 
$2.00. 
. © juniperoides compacta. Grows only slightly larger; branches 
coarser. Very dark green and glossy. $2.00. 
pisifera filifera nana. 12 in. A light sea-green tight mound. 75c. 
p. squarraso pygmaea. 5 in. Low fiat-topped silvery bush bearing 
juvenile and intermediate foliage and slow growing. T5c. 
Cryptomeria japonica nana. 18 in. Globular twisted branches clothed in 
dark green sharp needle leaves. $1.00. 
Juniperus communis compressa. 1% ft. A slender compact gray spire; 
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very slow-growing. $1.25. 
J. c. montana. A beautiful form; prostrate, slow-growing, silvery blue. 
50c. 
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