TREES OF UPRIGHT HABIT 



mentioned an Arborvitae, I cannot resist saying a 

 word or two about the Incense Cedar {Libocedrus 

 decurrens). This tree grows wild on the western 

 slopes of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountains 

 from Oregon southward to near the Mexican bound- 

 ary, and also on the California coast ranges. In the 

 Arnold Arboretum it is hardy only in a sheltered nook 

 near the top of Hemlock Hill. It has ascending 

 branches forming a columnar crown, and is of a 

 rich, dark shining green hue. This is one of the 

 most distinct of all hardy or nearly hardy Conifers, 

 and in Great Britain and Ireland, where it was in- 

 troduced by John Jeffrey in 1852, many stately, 

 columnar specimens fully 50 feet tall adorn lawns 

 and pleasure grounds. 



One of the most famous and best known of erect- 

 growing trees, but alas ! not hardy in the New England 

 states, is the Irish or Florence Court Yew (Taxus 

 haccata yax-Jastigiata). This most distinct Yew was 

 discovered on the mountains of Fermanagh, Ireland, 

 near Florence Court, the seat of the Earl of Enniskil- 

 len about 1780, by a tenant-farmer named Willis. 

 He found two plants, one he planted in his own gar- 

 den where it died, the other he gave to Florence 

 Court where it grows to this day. From this tree, 

 which is female, cuttings have been distributed and 

 from it all the true Irish Yews in existence have been 



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