COMMON YEW. 883 



the varieties the Taaous b. fctstigiata, Lindl., Irish or Up- 

 right Yew, is well deserving of extensive propagation 

 as an ornamental evergreen, distinctly marked from the 

 common species by its cypress-like form, which tree it 

 may be supposed to represent in our colder climate, and 

 by the disposition of its leaves, which, instead of being 

 in two ranks, like the species, are scattered around the 

 stem. This variety was first discovered in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Florence Court, Fermanagh, and the original 

 tree, we believe, still exists in a healthy state. It has 

 been extensively propagated in Ireland, and, when last 

 in the north of that island, we saw fine specimens in the 

 neighbourhood of Belfast and Antrim, near which place 

 is the large specimen from which figure 1982 in the " Arbo- 

 retum Britannicum " was taken. In Scotland there are 

 several fine examples of this variety ; Loudon mentions 

 two trees at Nether-place in Ayrshire, and another at 

 Balcarras, in Ayrshire, which is above fifteen feet high. 

 At Jardine Hall, Dumfriesshire, there is a fine plant in 

 the garden, about fifteen feet high ; this has frequently 

 produced berries, (the original tree from which they have 

 all been propagated being a female,) from which plants 

 have been raised, but, Sir William Jardine informs me, 

 that none have yet shown the fastigiate growth of the 

 parent ; Loudon, however, mentions a seedling from this 

 variety, in the Horticultural Gardens, Chiswick, which 

 shows the upright growth of the Irish Yew, but has the 

 leaves disposed as in the common .species. The Yellow- 

 fruited Yew, Tax. b. fructa-luteo is another variety, also 

 first discovered in Ireland ; except in the colour of its 

 berries, it resembles the common Yew. A third vai-iety 

 is the Tax. b. foliis variec/ata, Variegated Yew, the leaves 

 being striped with whitish yellow ; this is an unhealthy- 



