. 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. 224 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS Buchanani, Parsons (var. Buchononi, Spaeth). Plate XX. Graceful narrow- pyramidal form with slender branches and rather remote and irregularly arranged thin branchlets clothed with grayish-green foliage. A very distinct form. Globose or dwarf forms: Var. globosa, Beiss. (var. compada globosa, Hort.). American Globe A. Dwarf globose form, similar to var. compada, but lower and smaller. Var.


. 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. 224 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS Buchanani, Parsons (var. Buchononi, Spaeth). Plate XX. Graceful narrow- pyramidal form with slender branches and rather remote and irregularly arranged thin branchlets clothed with grayish-green foliage. A very distinct form. Globose or dwarf forms: Var. globosa, Beiss. (var. compada globosa, Hort.). American Globe A. Dwarf globose form, similar to var. compada, but lower and smaller. Var. Hoveyi, Veitch. Hovey A. Dwarf, dense, ovate- globose form with bright green foliage. Var. compacta, Beiss. (var. Froebelii, Hort. var. glohularis, Hort.). Parsons A. Globose light green form with rather thin branchlets. Var. intermedia, Hort. Halfhigh A. Of dwarf com- pact habit. Var. Woodwardii, Hort. Woodward A. Plate XXI. Dense globose form, with deep green foliage. Var. Little Gem, Hort. Little Gem A. Very dwarf dark green form, growing broader than high. Var. umbraculifera, Beiss. Compact, depressed-globose, of umbrella-like shape with dark green foliage. Forms of irregular or abnormal habit: Var. filiformis, Beiss. (var. Doug- lasii, Rehd.). Threadtwig A. Fig. 46. Bushy form, with long and slender sparingly ramified branches nodding at the tips, partly 4-angled and clothed with sharply pointed leaves. A very distinct form, somewhat similar to ChamcEcyparis pisifera var. filifera. Var. Ohlendorfifi, Beiss. (var. Spaethii, P. Smith). Spaeth 47, 48. Peculiar form with two kinds of foliage; the younger and lower branchlets with spreading acicular leaves like those of var. ericoides, but thicker in texture; the upper branchlets slen- der and sparingly ramified much like those of var. filifor- mis. Var. spiralis, Hort. Com- pact form with upright branches and very close-set short branch- lets; the branclilet-systems con- cave and twisted, suggesting a spiral arrangeme


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