528 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



North. The varieties, fastigiatum, pedulum, nutans, Sec., are 

 described under the head of Glyptostrobus. 



Taxus. THE YEW. 



Great additions have been made to this class of ever- 

 greens, since the first edition of this book, where only three 

 foreign and one American varieties are mentioned, viz. : 

 T. baccata (the Common English), T. fastigiata (the 

 Upright yew), and the T. fructo-flava (Yellow-berried). 

 Among the new ones which we have found hardy, are : 



T. adpressa (Flattened or Creeping yew). An exceedingly 



s yn . dark, striking bush, never, we believe, ex- 



Cephaiotaxus adpressa, cee din- three feet high, but spreading 



T. brevifolia. 



horizontally ; with very minute close 



leaflets and pretty bright red berries, very desirable ; like all 

 the yews, doing better in the shade. 



T. argentea and T. aurea (Silver and Golden yew). These 

 two are very beautiful and desirable varieties of the Common 

 yew ; the first having silvery white-striped leaves, and the 

 second golden. They seem perfectly hardy here. We 

 have some Golden yews grafted standard high on the Green 

 yew, which produces a very pleasing contrast. They are more 

 commonly known in the English nurseries as Taxus elegans and 

 Taxus elegantisHirna. 



T. Dovaston (Dovaston's yew). A singular Weeping 

 Syn. variety of common English yew, found some years 



T horizontal ago ' ^ we remember aright, in the yard of a cob- 

 bler near Shrewsbury ; described as pendulous as 

 a birch or weeping willow ; quite hardy with us, and well 

 worth cultivating. 



T. erecta (the Erect yew) A slender variety of the com- 

 8y n - mon English yew, with smaller foliage, and 



T! 8fricta. dahS ' mor e erect habit of growth ; sometimes called 

 Fulham yew. It is thought by some cultiva- 

 tors in this country to be hardier than the common English yew, 

 though the latter with us, especially after a year or so, 

 succeeds perfectly well, though possibly a little browned in 

 very severe winters. 



