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wore unusually appropriate to the situation. One of the 

 best collections of these handsome plants is probably to be 

 found at Wodenethe, on the Hudson, where they are of 

 large size, and very beautifully trained in various ways. 

 A quaint Scotch writer thus characterizes one of them : 

 " Taxus baccata variegata, or Golden Yew, when trained 

 to the height of 8 or 10 feet, has no rival for ornamenta- 

 tion, as each leaf is edged with a fine golden yellow color, 



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and the effect of richness and grandeur thus produced is 

 most wonderful." The same writer also fancifully* likens it 

 to " a golden candlestick ornamented with glow-worms." 



Var, Jacksoilii, W. Paul. "A somewhat pendulous 

 kind," says Gordon in his supplement, " with broad, light 

 green foliage, all more or less incurved, falcate, and thick- 

 ly covering the upper part of the branches, with the branch- 

 lets reddish-brown, numerous, short, obliquely placed, and 

 more or less cxirved." Not yet introduced into this 

 country. 



Var, Cheshuntensis, W. Paul. This pretty variety was 

 raised from seed of the Irish Yew, and is conical in form, 

 of rapid growth, and dark glossy-green in color. Recom- 

 mended by European writers. 



Var. lincaris has rather narrower leaves, but otherwise 

 is like var. erecta. 



Var. gracilis is different only in its quite slender 

 branches, and the varieties empetrifolia, nigra, and excel- 

 so^ &c., <fcc., differ but little from the true form of the spe- 

 cies, and are, perhaps, not worth growing as distinct forms. 



ADDITIONAL LIST OF SPECIES OF TAXUS. 



"We should judge that several of the following species 

 would be entirely hardy, but as they are mostly new and 

 untested, we place them here. 



