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Yew (7\ cuspidata), which is found from Japanese 

 Saghalien southward through Hokkaido, Hondo, and 

 Shikoku of Japan proper, and on the mainland from 

 the Amur Valley south to the extreme limit of 

 Korea; the Chinese Yew (7\ chinensis) is scattered 

 through central and western China and also on the 

 mountains of Formosa; the Himalayan Yew (7\ 

 Wallichiana), which is found between 6,000 and 

 11,000 feet on the Himalayas from Afghanistan and 

 Kashmir to Assam, on the Khasia Hills, and through 

 Upper Burmah and Malaya to Sumatra and the 

 Philippine Islands; the European Yew (7\ baccata), 

 which grows on the Cilician Taurus in Asia Minor, 

 in Armenia, the Caucasus, and northern Persia. In 

 Europe' this species is more or less common in all 

 mountainous and hilly districts from Lat. 63 10' N. 

 in Sweden and Norway, in Esthonia, and through 

 Great Britain from Aberdeen in Scotland south, 

 and from Donegal in Ireland south to the Medi- 

 terranean; also it grows in northern Africa, and on 

 the Atlas Mountains in Algeria. 



The Mexican and Florida Yews have never been 

 introduced into cultivation, and as far as I can dis- 

 cover this is also true of the Himalayan Yew. The 

 Canadian Yew is grown to some extent in New Eng- 

 land gardens but, in the open, browns badly in winter, 

 and except as a ground cover in shady, moist places 

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