CEPHALOTAXUS AND PODOCARPUS 



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props up the fruit of the Podocarps asserts an un- 

 mistakable independence of form and figure. 



Prumnopitys 

 Elegans 



Cephalotaxus 

 fortunei 



PODOCARPUS 



Speaking of this Yew fraternity from the point 

 of view of ornamental attraction, we might sum them 

 up and say of them, that without magnitude to inspire 

 us here, without flowers to render them visions of a 

 perfected beaut}^, without the perfume of Araby to 

 ingratiate them with others, they are interesting for 

 all that, and fulfil a destiny in many a garden ground 

 which tends towards the enrichment of its scener}^ 



CEPHALOTAXUS 



(Of the tribe SALISBURINE^E) and PODO- 

 CARPUS (OF THE TRIBE PODOCARPEiE) 



But here 'twixt rock and river grew 

 A distant grove of sable Yew. 



Sir Walter Scott. 



We do not wish to convey the impression that Sir 

 W. Scott had in mind any planning out of suitable 

 situations for new plant-life importations when he 

 wrote these lines. Yet there exists no earthly reason 

 why the Cephalotaxus and Podocarpus should not 

 occupy such Scylla and Charybdis positions as the 

 poet suggests, and present an appearance as described 

 in the above-quoted couplet. It reads as if it might 

 describe a spot especially chosen or created for the 



