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dens fifty and one hundred feet high ; but certainly 

 in youth the plant is wonderfully dwarf. Its strange 

 habit is produced by the curiously long, broad, dark, 

 green needles, or narrow-shaped leaves, that cluster 

 in parasol-like tufts at the end of each succeeding 

 year's growth. The color is as dark as that of the 

 yew, and the growth as compact. It is, moreover, 

 very hardy, and thus presents a combination of choice 

 qualities of the most strange, attractive, and valuable 

 character. The plant is so entirely original in its 

 forms that it seems some lone type, the correlations 

 of which are lost, or yet to be found. As we look 

 upon it, we commence to realize how thoroughly 

 most plants of the same genus, all over the globe, are 

 related to each other, just because we can think of 

 nothing else that resembles the parasol pine. 



"A Japanese yew, near by, of rich and spreading 

 habit, exemplifies this resemblance between various 

 members of a genus situated in various parts of the 

 earth. This Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidate) is 

 however, very noteworthy for great hardiness, a 

 character that can be scarcely accorded to any other 

 yew in this climate. Thuiopsis Standishii is another 

 Japanese plant on this lawn, of comparatively recent 

 introduction. I want to call your attention to it, 

 situated near the Retinosporas, not only because it is 

 a beautiful evergreen, somewhat like the arbor-vitse 

 in general appearance, but because it does better here, 

 apparently, than in England. This is a peculiarity 

 remarkable in an evergreen, for the moist climate of 

 England seems to make for them a very home." 



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