. 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. 198 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS extremities: leaves in closely set whorls, narrow-linear, tapering from the middle into a spiny point, stiff, sulcate and with a narrow white band above, prominently keeled below, yellowish-green, 3^-1 inch long: fruit globose, ]4r}/i inch across, brownish-black, bloomy, finally somewhat shining, ripening the second year. Japan, Korea, and Manchuria.—Intro- duced in 1861 to England by J. G.
. 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. 198 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS extremities: leaves in closely set whorls, narrow-linear, tapering from the middle into a spiny point, stiff, sulcate and with a narrow white band above, prominently keeled below, yellowish-green, 3^-1 inch long: fruit globose, ]4r}/i inch across, brownish-black, bloomy, finally somewhat shining, ripening the second year. Japan, Korea, and Manchuria.—Intro- duced in 1861 to England by J. G. Veitch. Graceful, narrow-pyramidal tree, loosely branched with pendulous branchlets; hardy as far north as New England and Ontario. 5. J. conferta, Pari. (J. litoralis, Maxim.). Shore J. Procumbent shrub: leaves crowded, narrow-linear, tapering into a spiny point, sulcate and with narrow white band above, keeled below: black at maturity, 3-seeded. Japan and Saghalin, on sandy seashores.—Intro- duced in 1915 to the Arnold Arboretum by E. H. Wilson. Hardy at least as far north as Massachusetts; it should make a good ground-cover and be particularly suited for planting on sand-dunes. 6. J. communis, L. Common J. Plate XII. Upright shrub or tree, sometimes attaining to 40 feet: leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering from the base into a sharp point, concave and with a broad white band above, sometimes di- vided at base by a green midrib, bluntly keeled below, 14-^ inch long: fruit almost sessile, oa t • • -j J 1 li 1 1 / 1 / • u • .30. Juniperus ngida. dark blue, glaucous, ^-f/% inch across, ripenmg the second or third year. The typical form is common in northern and central Europe and extends through northern and western Asia to Korea and Japan; in North America it occurs only occasionally from New England to Pennsylvania and North Carolina.—A variable species with several geo- graphical and climatic varieties and some garden forms. Var. aurea, Carr. (var. aur
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