THE VARIETIES OF COMMON TEW. 



Sp. (greenhouse evergreen shrub, Australia), 

 12 Plants, 16 Applicants. 

 j Jeakes, W., Esq. j Rowland, A. W., Esq. 



Green, E. B., Esq. j Pringle, Miss Eleanor. I 



No. 49. Acacia Sophoba (greenhouse evergreen shrub, Australia), 

 12 Plants, 25 Applicants. 

 Browne, E., Esq. (of I Martineau, D., Esq. I Walcot, Mrs. 



OakhiU). Paine, W. D., Esq. Wells, T. S., Esq. 



Cass, F., Esq. Prescott, W. G., Esq. Willson, J., Esq. 



Dent, J., Esq. Richards, E. P., Esq. 



Keeling, E. H., Esq. j Rowland, A. W., Esq. | 

 No. 50. Geeivia cleistocalyx (greenhouse evergreen shrub, Australia), 

 7 Plants, 51 Applicants. 

 Campbell, J„ Esq. : Glendinning. R., Esq. I Symmons, W., Esq. 



Egerton, Captain, R.N. I Pringle, MissE.Blanche. Venning, J. M., Esq. 

 Evans, Mr, Commr. I 1 



LXIII.— NOTES ON THE YAEIETIES OF 

 COMMON YEW {Taanis baccata). 



{Read before the Floral Committee, March 12th, 1861.) 

 £y Mr. William Paul, F.R.H.S., Cheshunt Nurseries, WaMam Cross, N. 

 As many of our favourite evergreens hitherto reputed hardy, 

 have heen seriously damaged or destroyed by the last winter's 

 frost, we turn with increased interest to those which remain to 

 us uninjured. Bays, Evergreen Oaks, Arbutus, Euonymus, 

 Laurestinus, Common Laurels, Cypress, and in some cases, 

 Portugal Laurels are killed. Araucarias, Deodaras, and some 

 other South American and Indian beauties have in many places 

 complexions as brown as ground rhubarb ; Phillyreas and more 

 hardy evergreens are stripped of their leaves. But our native 

 plant, the common Yew is safe ; none of tlie varieties have a 

 leaf injured in this valley of the Lea, where the thermometer on , 

 Christmas-day was 5 degrees below zero. 



The common Yew is, no doubt, well known to every observer, 

 but perhaps the numerous and beautiful forms which have 

 descended from it are as yet strangers to the many. It is these 

 varieties which I would now attempt to describe. They are 

 many in number, beautiful in appearance, and vary ' greatly 

 among themselves. Neat, graceful, elegant, picturesque, sombre. 



