. 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 217. Jvniperus Sanderi,'). Sander Retinispora. Fig. 41. Of low subglobose habit with bluish-gray, linear, spreading, blunt leaves about I inch long, thickish, marked with a green line above. Geographical variety: Var. fonnosana, Hayata. Tree to 130 feet tall; branchlets slenderer and thinner: cones subglobose, about 3^ inch across; seeds smaller. Formosa.—Introduced to the Arnold Arboretum
. 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 217. Jvniperus Sanderi,'). Sander Retinispora. Fig. 41. Of low subglobose habit with bluish-gray, linear, spreading, blunt leaves about I inch long, thickish, marked with a green line above. Geographical variety: Var. fonnosana, Hayata. Tree to 130 feet tall; branchlets slenderer and thinner: cones subglobose, about 3^ inch across; seeds smaller. Formosa.—Introduced to the Arnold Arboretum by E. H. Wilson in 1918. Probably hardy only in the Southern States and California. 5. C. Lawsoniana, Pari. {Cupressus Lawsoniana, Murr. C. Boursieri, Decne.). Lawson C. Fig. 42 and Plate XIX. Tree to 200 feet, with horizontally spreading and usually pendulous branches; bark reddish-brown, thick, divided into rounded ridges covered with small scales; branchlets flattened, frond- like arranged in horizontal planes: leaves closely appressed, obtuse or somewhat acute, usually bright green, marked below with often indistinct white streaks, with a gland on the back: staminate catkins bright red (yellow in all other species): cone globose, about 3^ inch across, red-brown and often glaucous; scales 8, with a thin reflexed mucro, each with 2-4 broad-winged seeds. Southwestern Oregon to northwestern California.—Introduced in 1854 to England. Hardy as far north as New York and in sheltered positions to Massachusetts. This is one of the most beautiful conifers and it forms in cultivation usually narrow pyramidal trees densely furnished to the ground with branches; it is very variable and about 80 garden forms are known in European nurseries and collections. Color forms: Var. albo-spica,Beiss. Cream C. Tips of branchlets creamy- white, of slender habit. Var. argentea, Beiss. {Cupressus Laicsoniana argentea, Gord.). Of slender habit, with very glaucous almost silvery foliage. Here belon
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