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derived. Many fine specimens of this Yew are 

 known, some more than 30 feet tall. The habit is 

 columnar and compact with all the branches and 

 branchlets directed vertically upward. The leaves 

 are dark green and shining and spread radially in 

 all directions from the branchlets.. It is very effec- 

 tive as a garden tree but requires pruning and tying 

 at intervals to keep it in good shape. There are 

 forms with golden (aurea) and silver (argentea) 

 tips to the branchlets. Pollinated by the Common 

 Yew seeds have developed and have given rise to less 

 fastigiate forms, such as ereda and cheshuntensis, 

 which have found their place in gardens. Another 

 form {elegantissima), raised from seeds the result of 

 pollination by the Golden Yew (Taxus baccata var. 

 aurea), has the young leaves yellow and the old 

 ones with white margins. 



Very valuable for gardens in the colder parts of 

 this country should prove the upright form of the 

 Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata var. Hicksii) which 

 quite recently appeared among some thousands of 

 seedlings of the type in the Nursery of I. Hicks 

 & Son, Westbury, Long Island, New York. Mr. 

 Henry Hicks obligingly informs me that the seeds 

 were "probably collected from the plant which stood 

 northwest of the residence of the late Charles A. 

 Dana, Glen Cove, Long Island, and which was later 



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