98 SEASIDE TREES AND SHRUBS 



Silver Poplar. See Populus alba. 



Sloe. See Prunus spinosa. 



Snow berry. See Symphoricarpus racemosus. 



Sorbus. Included under Pyrus. 



Spanish Chestnut. See Castanea sativa. 



Spanish Silver Fir. See Abies Pinsapo. 



Spindle Tree. See Euonymus europ&us. 



Spruce Fir. A popular name for several 

 species of Picea and other firs. 



Strawberry Tree. See Arbutus Unedo. 



Sweet Bay. See Laurus nobilis. 



Sweet Chestnut. See Castanea sativa. 



Sycamore. See Acer Pseudo-plat anus. 



Symphoricarpus racemosa, Snowberry. 



Tamarisk. Most useful by the sea. 



Taxus baccata, Common Yew. A well-known 

 hardy tree which grows in the most exposed 

 situations inland, but requires shelter from keen 

 exposure near the sea. It thrives in almost any 

 soil. Evergreen ; Britain. There are several 

 species of Yews and many varieties, some with 

 very ornamental foliage. There are numerous 

 forms of T. baccata, two of which are mentioned 

 here. Taxus baccata adpressa grows well near 

 the sea in Yorkshire. It is a seedling form, and 

 was raised in Messrs. Dickson's Nursery, Chester. 

 T. b. fastigiata, Irish or Florence Court Yew. A 

 well-known ornamental pyramidally-shaped tree. 

 It is very hardy under partial shelter near the sea. 



