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appearance, and will accommodate itself to a great variety of 
conditions. It will stand drought well, a very desirable quality 
in a plant for this latitude where droughts are of common oc- 
currence. It forms a broad spreading shrub, commonly much 
td than high. It is an excellent plant with which to cover 
ank, where a ais a little higher than the ordinary pros- 
trate evergreens is 
e yews are especially valuable for evergreen effects, their 
dark green foliage making them are attractive, winter 
or summer. ere are three species w! rdy. 
Taxus baccata, the English yew. rere ew does exceedingly 
well of course in England, Ale the Aiea is moist and the 
cold much less severe than with us here. From the fact that it 
axus cuspidata var. nana. This i is a native of Japan onda is 
found in a region which, in climatic annie: nearly approxi- 
mates our own. It is therefore the yew to employ in our decora- 
tive work here. This variety is an aces evergreen, the foliage 
of a striking dark green, the branches ascending, forming a 
broad spreading shrub of irregular outline, the center usually 
ope t nly fruits freely, the bright red berries adding 
an extra attraction in a here is a peculiar form of this 
th the branchlets quite irregular in length, producing an odd 
and characteristic appearance, with a mu re open center 
Taxus canadensis, the co e is is a 
of spreading habit, suit: abe i covering banks, 
ne 
aaeaiys in shaded or partly shaded situations. It seldom grows 
over a foot or two high. 
e arborvitae in its normal form is too large for dw: 
planting, but there are a number of dwarf forms, the following 
eing a selection: Thuja occidentalis var. dumosa has dark gree 
foliage and a dense irregular habi ar. Ellwangeriana. A lo 
pyramidal evergreen with two kinds of es—a form of this 
with yellow foliage is aurea. Var. globosa has bright green foliage 
