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from anything formerly introduced." In Great Britain this Yew never appears to 

 have attracted much attention, probably because T. baccata L. and its forms are 

 so common, quite hardy and thrive so well. It was introduced into America by 

 Dr. George R. Hall in 1862, who gave it to Parsons & Co., Nurserymen, Flush- 

 ing, Long Island, New York. It appears to have made slow headway for many 

 years in gardens here, but it is now becoming well known and its merits as the 

 hardiest of all the Yews properly appreciated. On the estate of the late Dr. Hall 

 there is growing a specimen which is 7 m. high and 40 m. round. It was planted 

 about 1870 and is probably one that he brought from Japan. 



In cultivation here are two forms besides the type: one, a low wide-spreading 

 shrub with short leaves, is f. nana Rehder (in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. IV. 1773 

 [1902]) and the other, a low compact shrub, is f. densa Rehder (in Bailey, Stand. 

 Cycl. Hort. VI. 3316 [1916]) (syn. T. baccata, subsp. globosa, f. tardiva Matsumura, 

 Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 1, 18 [1905], not T. baccata, f. tardiva Pilger). 1 



1 These are the only Yews known from Japan, but in books reference is frequently made to an- 

 other, erroneously supposed to be of Japanese origin and known variously as Taxus brevifolia Hort., 

 Cephalotaxus tardiva Siebold apud Endlicher, Taxus tardiva Hort., T. adpressa Hort. Endlicher 

 (Syn. Conif. 239 [1847]) apparently started the story that it came from Japan. Pilger names it T. 

 baccata, f. tardiva (in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-5, 114 [Taxaceae] [1903]), following the much copied error 

 that Knight had named it T. sinensis tardiva. Knight's name (Syn. Conif. 52 [1850?]) is T. ? tardiva. 

 The proper name for this plant is T. baccata, var. adpressa Carriere (in Jacques & Herincq, Man. PI. 

 IV. 380 [1857]). This plant originated as a chance seedling from T. baccata L. in the nurseries of 

 Messrs. Dickson at Chester, England, about 1826. Its history is given in The Garden, XXIX. 149, 

 221, 268 (1886) under the names of T. adpressa Hort. and T. brevifolia Hort. 



