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a strong, disagreeble smell, and named after Dr. Torrey, the 

 celebrated American botanist. 



T. grandis (The Grand Torrey a). Discovered by Fortune 

 in northern part of China, as a large tree with a spreading 

 head, but so resembling a Cephalotaxus (which most of the 

 others do) as to render it uncertain whether it may not yet 

 prove one. It is considered very desirable whatever it may 

 be, but just introduced into England and not yet, to our know- 

 ledge, here. 



.". myristica (Californian nutmeg). A small, bushy tree, 

 twenty to forty feet high, with spreading horizontal branches, 

 found on the Sierra Nevada, in California ; quite hardy in Eng- 

 land and likely to prove so here. Our specimens are out for 

 first winter, and we have no returns. Like all the Torreyas, 

 emitting a most disagreeable odor when bruised or burnt, and 

 called by emigrants the Stinking yew or California nutmeg. 



T. nucifera (Nut-bearing Torreya). This is out with us at 

 Wodenethe, for the first winter, and we have no returns 

 about it. It is another small tree, twenty to thirty feet high, 

 found on the mountains of Niphon and Sikok, in Japan, where 

 an oil is made from the kernel of the nuts, used there for cu- 

 linary purposes. The nut itself, and the leaves and branches, 

 have the distinguishing characteristic of all the Torreyas a 

 disagreeable odor. 



T. taxifolla (Yew-leaved Torreya.) This is one of our 



Syn. greatest accessions in the Middle States be- 



Taxus montana. m g now p er f ec tly hardy with us, as already 



described in our introductory chapter on evergreens, and very 



distinctive. 



It is a handsome pyramidal tree, with numerous spreading 

 branches, growing from forty to fifty feet high, found in the 

 middle and northern parts of Florida, where it is commonly 

 known by the inhabitants as Stinking cedar and Wild nutmeg. 



Our best specimen (fig. 96), is about eight feet high, very 

 dense, showing nothing but foliage, like a thrifty arbor vitae, 

 and remarkable, particularly in winter, for the star-like ap- 

 pearance of the extreme tips of its young shoots. 



We have returns of this tree from Elizabethtown, N. J , 

 Dobb's Ferry, Yorkville, Flushing and Newport, in all of 



