100 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS, 



tion, the best specimens being about eighteen feet in height. 

 The graceful, pendulous form of this tree and its linear leaves 

 and branchlets make it a most attractive lawn specimen, and 

 it cannot be too highly recommended. Some specimens are 

 now developing more tree-like characters with a strong central 

 leader. 



The var. plumosa is a fine form, more compact in its habit 

 of growth than the type. The leaves are bluish-green above 

 and silvery on the under side. The tips of the branches often 

 winter-kill at Ottawa and turn brown, rendering the specimen 

 rather unsightly until the new growth is made. The golden- 

 leaved form is not quite so hardy or satisfactory. This variety 

 reverts to the type after fifteen or twenty years, branches 

 appearing and taking the lead with foliage of R. pisifera. 



Where var. squarrosa is hardy, as on the west coast, it is 

 perhaps the most beautiful of the retinisporas because of its 

 soft, light, bluish-green foliage. However, in eastern Canada it 

 is the least satisfactory variety as it kills in patches in the 

 winter, becoming very unsightly, although when somewhat 

 protected by other trees it comes through fairly well. 



Retinispora ericoides is sometimes Thuja occidentalis var. 

 ericoides, and sometimes a chamsecyparis, but it is usually sold 

 under the name of retinispora. It is of dwarf habit, with soft 

 fine leaves and weak branches, and in winter is badly injured 

 by snow at Ottawa, and usually there is more or less scalding 

 of foliage. After the new growth is made, however, it is a 

 pleasing object. 



The yews. 



Owing to the many persons of British origin living in Canada 

 who have a certain reverence for the yew, of which there are 

 such old specimens in Great Britain, there is considerable 



