Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . gt;is thatare nearly always found on the bame tree, viz., juvenile awI-sha|K-d ones, and 670 JUxNIPERUS small scale-like, adult ones. The former are 4 to .. in. long, sharply and stifflypointed, arranijed either in threes or oppositely in pairs, with two glaucouslines on the upper surface, green elsewhere. Scale-like leaves usually in pairs,rarely in threes, closely flattened to the branchlet, ^^ in. long, blunt at theapex. The plants are unisexual, and the male flowers, very freely borne inearly spring, are yellow and pretty. Fruits about j in. d
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . gt;is thatare nearly always found on the bame tree, viz., juvenile awI-sha|K-d ones, and 670 JUxNIPERUS small scale-like, adult ones. The former are 4 to .. in. long, sharply and stifflypointed, arranijed either in threes or oppositely in pairs, with two glaucouslines on the upper surface, green elsewhere. Scale-like leaves usually in pairs,rarely in threes, closely flattened to the branchlet, ^^ in. long, blunt at theapex. The plants are unisexual, and the male flowers, very freely borne inearly spring, are yellow and pretty. Fruits about j in. diameter, roundish orrather top-shaped, whitish with bloom when ripe ; seeds three. Native of Japan, Mongolia, and China ; introduced to Kew in 1804 byW. Kerr. This juniper and J. virginiana are the commonest and best oftree-like junipers for gardens. It is perfectly hardy. From J. virginiana itdiffers in its blunt, scale-like leaves, and in the awl-shaped ones beingfrequently in whorls of threes. As a rule both juvenile and adult leaves occur. JUNIPBROS OXYCEDROS. on the same tree, but occasionally specimens of good age have nothing butjuvenile foliage. There are male trees at Kew which bear flowers in the axilsof leaves of the awl-shaped, juvenile type, Var. ALBO-VARIEGATA.—A well-marked form in which a considerableportion of the younger growth is wholly creamy white, the rest wholly from Jaj)an by Fortune, one of whose original ])lants used to growm the Knap Hill nursery. This variety is of sturdier habit and dwarfer thanthe type. Var. AUKKA. Youngs Golden Juni|)er.—The whole of the young parts ofthis plant are golden yellow, very striking in summer. Raised in Youngsnursery at Milford, in Surrey ; of rather dense, slender form. Var. JAIONICA.—.\ dwarf shrub with foliage mostly of the juvenile is represented in gardens by two sub-varieties, viz., japonica AUREA, with all JUNIPERUS G71 the young growths of a golden yellow, habit spreading, produci
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