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Yew, continued 



Dwarf Japanese. T. cuspidata. var. brevi- 

 folia. This is black-green in color, with 

 short, stubby branches indicating great 

 hardiness. We recommend it highly where 

 a low evergreen of irregular, picturesque 

 habit is needed. It will grow perhaps 3 feet 

 high and 15 feet broad in twenty years, 

 resembling in size the Common Juniper, 

 but the branches spread horizontally from 

 a stiff central trunk, whereas the Juniper 

 has numerous trailing branches. 



Canadian. T . Canadensis. This carpets the 

 damp forests. Some of the old botanies 

 record it as native of Manhattan Island. 

 In cultivation, it forms a beautiful cushion 

 about 2 feet high and 15 feet wide, there 

 being several old plants on Long Island 

 that are hardy and handsome. 



Spreading. T.repandens. This is a beautiful 

 and graceful plant growing 4 feet high and 

 twice as broad. The branchlets arch grace- 

 fully and make a dense, dark green plant. 

 It is very rare and hardy, and, as the name 

 does not appear in the horticultural books, 

 we cannot say where it is native, but it 

 appears to be quite hardy here. It will 

 stand dense shade, but that does not 

 mean the shade of a Silver Maple tree 

 which would exhaust the moisture in the 

 summer. 



English. T. baccata. This will grow in 

 sheltered positions, and we recommend the 

 purchase of these plants for a dark green 

 cover under Locust trees or shady places 

 in such valleys as Cold Spring and Roslyn, 



Englemann's Spruce at residence of Mr. James A. Blair, Oyster 

 Bay, L. I. 



Canadian Yew ( Taxus Canadensis ) as a carpet bordering a path. 

 Now that we offer hardy varieties of the Yew family, some of them 

 being varieties not elsewhere listed, we trust they 

 will be used in landscape planting. 



Yew, English, continued 



or for planting about houses on the east 

 end of Long Island where the ocean cli- 

 mate is favorable. 



Golden English. T. baccata, var. elegan- 

 tissima. We have a stock of plants twenty 

 years old that have been grown on Long 

 Island and demonstrate the frequent ex- 

 pression that the Golden variety is hardier 

 than the species. They can be used in a 

 garden or planted in tubs. 



There are thousands of families in apart- 

 ments, flats and tenements that should be 

 bringing up their children, all the year, in the 

 country. Tunnels and electric traction and 

 automobiles and the comparative cost will 

 soon compel or permit living in the country. 

 It is objected that the country in winter is 

 bleak, windswept, lacks beauty and privacy. 

 Evergreens will cure this. 



There are other objections to all -the - 

 year country residence, social, educational, 

 amusement, water supply, domestic service, 

 certainty and promptness of transportation, 

 that evergreens cannot cure, but these objec- 

 tions are yearly lessening. 



We have the largest size, largest quantity, 

 cheapest, most hardy and cheerful evergreens 

 offered in the northeastern United States, 



