The Torreyas 



The Japanese Torreya promises more hardiness than our 

 native species, and more beauty in cultivation. In habit it is 

 compact with erect limbs, quite different from the pendulous- 

 limbed natives. The bright red bark adds to its beauty, as also 

 does the breadth and fine shape of the lanceolate leaves. In Japan 

 this tree is highly prized for its wood, which is used in cabinet 

 work and building. A Chinese species, T. grandis, resembling the 

 Japanese, is said to lack the disagreeable odour of the other 

 species. 



The Florida Torreya (7. iaxifolium, Greene) is very local in 

 the northwestern part of that state, growing on bluffs along the 

 Appalachicola River. It is rarely 40 feet high, and is called the 

 "stinking cedar." 



The California Nutmeg (7. Calijornicum, Greene) is a 

 larger tree, handsome in its youthful vigour, in age losing its 

 pyramidal form and becoming round-topped. It is a striking 

 evergreen at any age, with its pale grey bark and its fruits hanging 

 like half-ripe plums among the sprays of prickly, sickle-shaped, 

 linear leaves. The pit of the fruit resembles a nutmeg. A fine 

 grove of these trees is within the borders of the Yosemite Park. 

 Nowhere common, they occur on slopes of the Sierras and Santa 

 Cruz Mountains between 3,000 and 5,000 feet above sea level. 



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