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may be removed and set behind or under a north wall, 

 or some shady spot for the summer. The seedlings 

 may be pricked out into other pans or pots, or potted 

 off singly into small pots in the following spring, and 

 finally planted out into beds. The soil best suited for 

 growing the Arbutus in is one of peat or good maiden 

 loam. There are several varieties, but the Uncdo is the 

 best on account of the abundance of its berries. 



The Yew. 



The common and Irish Yews are great favourites. 

 There is nothing, in my opinion, which has a better 

 effect than a good many Irish Yew-trees about pleasure- 

 grounds — their peculiar, compact, and upright cha- 

 racter adapts them to every place, however small. 

 Some of the Irish Yews, planted in suitable places, 

 over lawns, on terraces, and in cemeteries or church- 

 yards, and for the Italian garden, give them a somewhat 

 marked character, differing in effect from those places 

 which are destitute of them. The close, compact, pillar- 

 like character, the deep green colour, and the lasting 

 nature of the plant, render it quite an acquisition among 

 the more delicate classes of shrubs. The Irish Yew will 

 grow in any kind of good soil, and may be planted at 

 almost any time of the year, except in the middle of 

 summer. 



There are several varieties of this tree. They may be 

 propagated by cuttings of the ripened young wood 

 under a handlight put in during the autumn. The 

 common Yew is well known, and I know of no plant 

 so thoroughly well suited for evergreen hedges, for 

 interior fences, and screens about the house, &c, as the 

 common Yew. It will live for ages, bear clipping as 

 neat as a carpet, grows as close as a boarded fence, and 

 is nearly as good, or perhaps quite, as a wall for a wind- 

 break, while it is infinitely more agreeable in appear- 

 ance. The Yew may be propagated by cuttings and 

 by seed, the latter plan being the most general. The 

 berries should be gathered as soon as ripe, washed clean 



