178 CONIFEROUS TREES 



shoots wholly suffused with the same colour. It 

 is a useful and desirable variety. 



T. BACCATA FRUCTU LUTEO (Yellow- berried 

 Yew) is remarkable for the berries being yellow 

 instead of red. It is a very ornamental variety, 

 with divaricate 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. On slate rock at 

 the Penrhyn slate quarries in Wales this variety 

 thrives with remarkable vigour. 



T. BACCATA Jacksoni 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, Knight and Perry, as the name 

 denotes, is of dwarf growth. The habit is compact 

 and upright, dense, and the leaves comparatively 

 smaller and darker in colour than that of the 

 species. It is a useful shrub for many positions, 

 and though rarely rising more than a yard from 

 the ground, has a wide spread in proportion to its 

 height. 



T. BACCATA Neidpathensis. — This variety, as 

 usually seen, is of columnar habit, with an inclina- 

 tion to become spreading at the head. The leaves 

 are small, closely arranged, and of a bright, glossy 

 green. 



T. BACCATA NIGRA is remarkable for the dark 

 green of the upper, and bluish green of the under 

 sides of the leaves, the latter particularly rendering 

 the shrub unusual amongst the numerous varieties 



