. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . , varying greatly in form andcolor. The best of these are : albo-variegata, with white 196 Coniferous Urees. leaves and branches among the green ones; dwarf andcompact, of a conical \\&t\<tii/-rari<ijata, with the young branches tipped gold- en yellow, very pictu-resque ; erecta viridis,of a columnar habitand a beautiful srreencolor; gracilispendu-la, with long and slen-der, semi - pendulousbranches; nana, aglobular form, andnana glutted, a verybeautiful glaucous va-riety. The Nootkacedar (C%. N
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . , varying greatly in form andcolor. The best of these are : albo-variegata, with white 196 Coniferous Urees. leaves and branches among the green ones; dwarf andcompact, of a conical \\&t\<tii/-rari<ijata, with the young branches tipped gold- en yellow, very pictu-resque ; erecta viridis,of a columnar habitand a beautiful srreencolor; gracilispendu-la, with long and slen-der, semi - pendulousbranches; nana, aglobular form, andnana glutted, a verybeautiful glaucous va-riety. The Nootkacedar (C%. Nooikaen-sis) is the finest andhardiest species of thisgenus. It is of a slen-der, graceful habit,with short archingbranches and imbri-cated foliage, some-times bright green,sometimes are several varieties of this species. The Japanesecedar (Ch. obtusd), which grows into a tree a hundred feethigh, is (piite common in gardens. The branches are slen-der, with ample, feathery sprays, and scale-like, adpressedleaves. The most common varieties are: aurea, with many. FIG. 100.—LAWSONS CEDAR ICHAM/ECYPARIS LAW-SONIANA). Coniferous Urccs. 197 of the sprays golden yellow, intermixed with given ; nana,a very dwarf variety a couple of feet high only, broad andspreading ; plwmosa, with very large and feathery sprays ofa Huffy appearance. There is a sub-variety of this cedarwith yellow variegations (plumosa av/red), and one in whichthe young growth is creamy white (a/rgented). This speciesis one of the most useful garden plants. The smaller varie-ties are handsome in rockeries, and the larger ones in groupsand as specimen trees. Oh. pisifera is a remarkable andpicturesque species with very long, cord-like branchlets. Itis of a compact habit and very beautiful and characteristicwhen well grown. In the variety Jilifera, this peculiarhabit is more pronounced. Ch. squarosa is one of the mostcommon of the smaller coniferse. It has fluffy, featherysprays of a glaucous or silvery-g
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