Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Gardener, 1873: A Magazine of Horticulture and Floriculture
In our shrubberies and pleasure-grounds it is a very neat, some what slow - growing plant, with a dense conical habit of growth, the foliage very short, thickly set on the branchlets, and of a peculiar and pleasing glaucous-grey colour. It is a most effective lawn specimen shrub, contrasting well with the more sombre-foliaged Conifers, and well worthy of extensive introduction among choice decorative plants. It is found to succeed best where the soil is deep and rich, and requires a well-sheltered situation. A superb variety of recent introduction appropriately named stricta, differs from the species in having a narrower conical habit, tapering up to a sharp point, with the branches more compressed, and altogether more rigid and formal in its appearance 3 is admirably adapted for small geometric gardens, or for terraces, and lawns of limited extent. It is equally hardy with the species, and well deserves the attention of collectors of really handsome shrubs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
