. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. 338 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS D. Fruit globular, glaucous brownish-violet with 2-3 seeds; the scale leaves without notches and blunt at tip. Chinese Juniper (609) — Juniperus chin^nsis. D. Fruit small, glaucous, brownish, 1-2-seeded on short straight stems ripening the first year; leaves very small and sharp-pointed. Virginian Juniper or Red Cedar — Juniperus virgini^na. D. Fruit larger, light blue, pendulous, borne on curved stems, 1-4- seeded, ripening the second year; low spreading shrubs with strong disagreeable odor wh
. Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated). Shrubs. 338 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS D. Fruit globular, glaucous brownish-violet with 2-3 seeds; the scale leaves without notches and blunt at tip. Chinese Juniper (609) — Juniperus chin^nsis. D. Fruit small, glaucous, brownish, 1-2-seeded on short straight stems ripening the first year; leaves very small and sharp-pointed. Virginian Juniper or Red Cedar — Juniperus virgini^na. D. Fruit larger, light blue, pendulous, borne on curved stems, 1-4- seeded, ripening the second year; low spreading shrubs with strong disagreeable odor when bruised. Savin or Shrubby Red Cedar or Juniper (610) or Waukegan Juniper (611) or Tamarisk-leaved Juniper (012) — Juniperus Prostrate Juniper, Of the above species, com- munis, chin^nsis, virginitoa, and Sabina have most of the dwarf varieties. With the fruit there will be but little difficulty in cor- rectly naming them, but without the fruit there will be much trouble. Sabina can be readily separated by its odor from virgin- iana, which it most resembles. Below are given most of the va- rieties that are shrubby. Curved-branched Juniper (608) — Juniperus reciirva — is a shrub or tree to 30 feet. It has dwarf varieties of which the lowest one. Prostrate Juniper (613) — squama,ta, —has prostrate or trail- ing branches, leaves straight and slightly spreading, of a glaucous bluish green color; Dense- branohed Juniper—dfiiisa—has short crowded branchlets and curved grayish green leaves. Common Juniper (607)—Juni- perus communis—in its tree form ranges from 20 to 30 feet but is often a shrub of 4 to 5 feet; RouNiinn Juniper — hemi. sphiirica — is, as its name indi- cates, a rounded shrub with many. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig), 1
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