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however, is the widely grown Austrian pine {Pinus 

 austrica). This is the best of all evergreens for the sea- 

 shore or very much exposed places. It grows fast, and 

 is a positive feature in the landscape with its fine dark 

 masses of foliage. In a dwarfer, more compact way, 

 Pinus mughus, the Mugho pine, is about as hardy, and 

 has a very decided and pleasing effect on the lawn. 

 Pinus cemhra, the Swiss stone pine (not the Italian 

 stone pine which is tender in northern climates), is 

 very hardy, has a pyramidal compact form, and grows 

 slowly, although it attains considerable size. 



The yews are a fine family of evergreens, one of the 

 very best, but in America they are most of them not 

 really hardy, that is, the winter is apt to destroy their 

 beauty even if it does not kill them. There is a spread- 

 ing yew, Taxus repande?ts, whose dark green foliage will 

 sometimes cover a space fifteen feet square. Its chief 

 value is its great hardiness. The last yew that will be 

 mentioned is Taxus cuspidata, the best of the family for 

 all purposes and in certain ways the best of all ever- 

 greens. The foliage is deep green and glossy; it grows 

 as a rule compactly, but it takes on various forms, some 

 low and even dwarf, and others pyramidal and of 

 considerable size. All these forms are hardy and ex- 

 ceedingly effective in every way. The umbrella pine 

 (Sciadopitys verticillata) looks like a yew, but it is not. 

 Its form is symmetrical and its colour deep and glossy ; 

 a beautiful tree and a choice tree but no longer so very 

 rare. The Japanese are sending them over in consider- 

 able numbers and they are grown in this country and 



