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portions of the coast ranges of California. The Colorado 

 form, however, proves perfectly hardy and is not only at- 

 tractive to the eye in June, but is deliciously resinous in 

 odor. There is a, psendotsuga Sieboldii, from Japan, which 

 is also beautiful in June. The blue spruce of the Rocky 

 Mountains ( Picea pungens) is perhaps the richest and 

 bluest of evergreens at this season, and has also the high 

 merit of being hardy and vigorous. 



But after extolling the beauties of all these evergreens 

 in June, we must turn for the finest evergreen effect in 

 summer to the golden yew. Later its colors are more or 

 less dulled, in comparison, and sometimes it is even browned 

 in winter, though scarcely ever actually killed, but now, in 

 June, its deep, rich gold is fairly luminous in its glow of 

 young life. The golden yew bears patiently any amount 

 of pruning, and may be and is continually distorted by 

 pruning into the most artificial forms. There is a silver- 

 tinted variety of the same English yew (Taxus laccata) 

 of which the golden is also a variety, but it is hardly as 

 distinct and striking. It is called T. I. elegantissima ; 

 why, I cannot say, unless silver may be termed more 

 elegant than gold. It is difficult to do justice to either of 

 these last-named evergreens as they appear in late May or 

 early June. The variety and freshness of tint as contrasted 

 in broadly pervading masses with the darker shades of the 

 mature growth really defy description, while they make 

 decidedly one of the most charming features of the lawn in 

 early summer. The Irish yew is not always hardy, but it 

 is striking and distinct. 



In looking over this brief review of the most prominent 



