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The Horticulturist and Journal 



scarcely beyond the stature of shrubs and 

 adapted to the foreground, the points on curv- 

 ing walks, small town gardens or cemetery 

 lots. 



Small Everf/reens.—'For this the Corneal 

 Spruce is a very neat and compact miniature 

 tree, never getting too large for its surround- 

 ings, and always giving satisfaction. 



The Wee-ping Nonray Spruce is like a sad 

 child with branches always drooping and hug- 

 ging its parent stem. If its leader is kept 

 trained upri<rht a tree will be produced with 

 height five times the diameter of its branches. 



The Gregorian Spruce is a sport of the 

 Norway Spruce, rarely reaching over two and 

 spreading three or four feet. It is very luxu- 

 riant and striking. 



The Hudson Bay Fir is a dwarf plant of 

 the same character, with bluish silvery foliage 

 and a more glossy-green than the (iregorian 

 Spruce. 



The Weeping Silver Fir has a more com- 

 pact and richer foliage than the Weeping Nor- 

 way Spruce, and with its leader trained in the 

 same way will surpass it in beauty. No lawn 

 or small garden should be without it. 



The Variegated Hemlock is a white tipped 

 variety of marked distinctness, and w^orthy of 

 a place where contrasts are wanted. 



The Macrophylla Hemlock is very distinct, 

 growing close and compact, like a Yew, and 

 one of the sorts that always attract observa- 

 tion. 



But the gem of all gems is the Weepi7ig 

 Hemlock. If left to" itself, it will remain 

 trailing upon the ground ; but if the leader is 

 tied to a firni stake it can be carried to any 

 reasonable height, and each tier of branches 

 will then droop in graceful curves toward the 

 ground, and more like an evergreen fountain 

 than any tree known. 



If the Nordmann Fir is the king among 

 conifers, the Weeping Hemlock is worthily his 

 queen. 



The Divarf White Pine has a feathery and 

 soft aspect, which make it very attractive ; 

 and the Dwarf Scotch Fir, although more 

 rapid and compact, has its marked distinction 

 of color. 



Yetvs.—'Y\\e whole Yew family is remarka- 

 ble for its substantial and enduring qualities. 

 The lives of single specimens number hun- 

 dreds of years, and they were largely used 

 when the topiary style of gardening was in 

 vogue. On Long Island all of them are 

 hardy, while the Irish or pyramidal is the 

 better when shielded by other shrubs from the 

 keenness of a northwestern wind. Indeed all 

 of them would be the better for this slio-ht 

 protection. 



The common English Yew, is too well 

 known to need description. Its dark foliage 

 and capability of being clipped into fantastic 

 forms, give it a place which can only be at- 

 tained by other members of its own family. 



The Erect Yew is the most prominent of 

 these. It is more upright in its form, more 

 hardy against cold, smaller and finer in its 

 foliage, and in many ways superior to the com- 

 mon English Yew. 



The Irish Yeiv has nothing like it in form. 

 The diameter of its foliage is scarcely one-fifth 

 of its height, and its color is rich and dark. 



The Japan Yew has larger leaves, stronger 

 and more luxuriant growth, and larger diam- 

 eter of foliage, in proportion to its height, 

 than the Irish Yew, which it somewhat re- 

 sembles in form. 



The Golden Yeiv is the most striking of all. 

 When the new growth is upon it, in June, its 

 surface is like burnished gold, to be seen from 

 all points. I know of nothing so valuable for 

 rich color effects, and cannot easily forget the 

 view which burst upon me when I came from 

 behind the shrubbery upon the Italian garden 

 of Elvaston Castle, where crowns and pagodas 

 and birds and arm chairs, made of the Golden 

 Yew, intei-spersed with clipped forms of the 

 English Yew, made a charming scene which I 

 cannot describe to you in adequate terms. 



The Elegant Ytw is a lighter tipped vari- 

 ety, somewhat resembling the Golden. 



The Cephalotaxus is a yew-like Chinese 

 tree, introduced by Fortune, the Chinese ex- 

 plorer. It has a very light foliage, bears 

 clipping well, and is so marked in its character 

 that it should be in every collection. 



[To be Confinited.] 



