570 E V E K G li E E y T R E E S AND SHE UB S. 



The American Yew, 7'. uinadfiisis, is a sprcadiiii; saxin-like 

 shrub that grows as if around the bottom of a bowl. Of no 

 value. 



The Cluster-flowered Yews. Ccphalotaxus. — These are 

 modern additions to the family of yews introduced from China and 

 Japan, that promise to be more hardy than the English yew, and 

 to bear our sun without injury. Those we have seen are many- 

 branched, wide-spreading shrubs with long thick leaves. 



The Plum-fruited Yew. Ccphalotaxus dnipacce ( Podocarpus 

 drttpacca; Taxus japojika). — Growing in the north of China, it is 

 described as a compact evergreen tree, from twenty to thirty feet 

 high, found wild on the mountains, and cultivated in the gardens. 

 " The leaves are arranged in two rows, laterally along the branches, 

 regularly opposite, rather close, leathery, stiff linear, slightly curved 

 or falcate, bluntly tapering to a short acute spiney point * * from 

 three-quarters to one and one-fourth inches long, of a deep glossy 

 green above," etc. (Gordon). Branches straight, stiff, and spread- 

 ing; branchlets in two flat lateral rows, short and numerous. 

 Believed to be hardy at New York and Fishkill. 



Fortune's Cephalotaxus. C.fortunii mascula, C. f. fcmina. 

 — These are male and female plants, both of which are known 

 by the above popular name, but the femina is said to be less hardy 

 than the mascula. We consider this one of the prettiest evergreen 

 acquisitions of late years. In its early growth it forms a spreading 

 shrub or bushy tree with many branches and branchlets, the latter of 

 a light green color that contrast prettily with the pure deep green 

 of the long stiff leaves, which are about two inches in length. The 

 branchlets are generally described as drooping at the ends, but the 

 specimens we have seen had not that character. Parsons & Co.'s 

 best specimen is about seven feet high, and eight or nine feet in 

 diameter, and of such peculiar appearance as to attract at once 

 any observer of shrubs and trees. In China it is found from forty 

 to sixty feet high, and the branches are represented to drcop 

 gracefully. So far we can only regard it in this country as a 

 promising evergreen shrub wliich has proved hardy around New 

 York, but which should be insured by adequate winter protec- 



