'Allumii' - a glaucous blue, narrowly pyramidal in habit

'Argentea' - most silvery of the glaucous forms

'Elegantissima' - graceful, gray-white foliage

'Ellwoodii' - a very slow growing shrub with erect branches and densely covered with feathery, glaucous-blue foliage.

'Filiformis Compacta' - compact in habit, but branchlets drooping

'Fletcheri' - an excellent ornamental, close, feathery, blue foliage and pyramidal form. Mature plants are 12-20 feet tall

'Forsteckensis' - a dwarf, globose variety having deep green, mosslike foliage. The branchlets are twisted into coxcomblike heads

'Gracilis Pendula' - a very pendulous branched variety

'Hillieri' - a yellow variety which is very good

'Lutea' - young foliage at first pale yellow, later turning to golden yellow. Stiff and erect in habit

'Minima' - dwarf and very compact

'Minima Aurea' - miniature form with golden-yellow foliage

'Minima Glauca' - making a conical ball of steel-blue foliage

'Nidiformis' - horizontal branches radiating from a dense center and branchlets drooping at the tips

'Stewartii' - the foliage is at first a golden yellow, turning to green late in the season

'Triomphe de Boskoop' - a fast growing shrub of a beautiful glaucous-blue color