. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 203 fruit globose, about ]/^ inch across, dark purplish-brown, covered with bluish bloom, 4-6-seeded. Greece, western Asia, and Caucasus.—Introduced in 1836 to England. Hardy as far north as New York. Var. stricta, Rollisson (var. Perkinsii, Gord. var. venusta, Gord.). Spiny Greek J. Columnar form with juvenile glaucous foliage. 14. J. procera, Hochst. Afri- can J. Tree to 100 or 150 feet tall, s
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 203 fruit globose, about ]/^ inch across, dark purplish-brown, covered with bluish bloom, 4-6-seeded. Greece, western Asia, and Caucasus.—Introduced in 1836 to England. Hardy as far north as New York. Var. stricta, Rollisson (var. Perkinsii, Gord. var. venusta, Gord.). Spiny Greek J. Columnar form with juvenile glaucous foliage. 14. J. procera, Hochst. Afri- can J. Tree to 100 or 150 feet tall, similar to the preceding: leaves in 3's, or opposite, lanceo- late and spreading or loosely appressed and ovate-lanceolate: fruit globose, small, about 3^ incl across, 2-3-seeded. Mountains o eastern Africa. — Cultivated in California, reintroduced by E. H. Wilson in 1921. Probably the tallest species of the genus. 15. J. chinensis, L. {J. sinensis, Hort.). Chinese J. Fig. 31. Tree to 60 feet, or shrub, some- times procumbent; branches rather slender: acicular leaves opposite or in 3's, linear, pointed and spreading, with 2 white bands above, or scale-like, appressed, rhombic, obtuse: flowers dioecious; the staminate ones numerous, yel- low, often on branchlets with juvenile foliage: fruit globular, brownish-violet. 31. Juniperus chinensis. bloomy. inch across, with 2 or 3 seeds, ripening the second year. Himalayas, China, Japan.—Introduced to England before 1767; A variable species of which many garden forms are in cultivation. Variegated forms: Var. albo-variegata, Veitch (var. argenteo-variegata, Hort.). Whiteleaf Chinese J. A compact shrub with the tips of the branchlets creamy-white; the leaves mostly scale-like. Var. aurea, Young (var. mascula avrea, Hort.). Golden Chinese J. Upright form with scale- like foliage, the young growth golden-yellow. Pyramidal or columnar forms: Var. mas, Gord. (var. mascula, Carr. var. strvthiacea. Knight). A dense conical form with most
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