EVERGREEN TREES. 



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stem one to three feet in diameter. California, from Mendocino 

 County to Mariposa County. 



T. taxifolia, Arn. — Stinking Cedar. — Leaves about an inch and 

 a half long, very sharp-pointed, rigid, almost sessile, pale shin- 

 ing green. Branches horizontal spreading, with somewhat two 

 rounded branchlets. Fruit about the size and shape of a nut- 

 meg, with a smooth bark or shell. A small branchlet is rep- 

 resented in figure 50, about two-thirds of the natural size. A 

 small tree, twenty to forty feet high, with odoriferous and very 



Fig. 50. — FLORIDA TOKEETA. 



durable wood. In middle Florida. This specie^ has proved 

 quite hardy in favorable soils and locations as far north as the 

 City of New York, and in a few instances farther north, but 

 cannot be recommended for general cultivation except in the 

 South. 



FOREIGN' SPECIES. 



T. nncifera, Zuccarini. — Nut-bearing Torreya. — Leaves as in our 

 native species, but of a dark glossy-green color. Branches 

 numerous, with scaly bark. Fruit egg-shaped, and about an 

 inch long. A tree from forty to sixty feet high, native of the 

 West Coast of Nippon, Japan. Not thoroughly tested in this 

 country, its hardiness is somevv'hat doubtful in our Northern 



