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the branches showing here and there through the deep green 

 fohage has a pleasing effect. 



T. baccata fastigiata is a well-known and justly 

 popular variety that originated in Ireland — hence the popular 

 name, Irish yew, that has been bestowed upon it. The habit 

 is strictly fastigiate, the branches short, stout, and close-grow- 

 ing, and the leaves of a deep green, and scattered around the 

 branchlets. 



T. baccata fastigaata argerstea differs principally 

 in the yellowish-white tint of the younger branch tips and 

 some of the leaves, but owing to its inconstant variegation 

 has not been largely planted. 



T. baccata ■fasti^iata aurea is a very desirable 

 variety, in which many of the leaves are margined with golden- 

 yellow, or the young shoots wholly suffused with the same 

 colour. It is a useful and desirable variety. 



T. baccata fructo-luteo (Yellow-berried Yew) is at 

 once remarkable for the berries being yellow instead of red, 

 as in the species. It is a very ornamental variety, with 

 divaricated branches, and rather short, sharp-pointed leaves, 

 which are usually more or less curved. Being of vigorous 

 growth, with pleasing green foliage and bright yellow fruit, 

 this variety is worthy of extended culture. 



T. baccata Jackson ii is an interesting variety with 

 curiously twisted leaves, which are altogether smaller than 

 those of the species. It is of weeping habit, and forms a neat 

 small- growing shrub with distinct light green foliage. 



T, baccata nana, as the name denotes, is of dwarf 

 growth. The habit is compact and upright, dense of growth, 

 and the foliage comparatively smaller and darker in colour 

 than that of the species. It is a useful shrub for many posi- 

 tions, and though rarely rising more than a yard from the 

 ground, has a wide spread in proportion to the height. 



T. baccata Nidpathensis. — This variety, as usually 

 seen, is of columnar habit, with an inclination to become 

 spreading at the head. The leaves are small, closely arranged, 

 and of a bright and glossy green. 



