TREES OF UPRIGHT HABIT 



moved to the estate of William D. Guthrie, Locust 

 Valley, Long Island." 



A Japanese plant analogous to the Irish Yew is 

 Cephalotaxus drupacea f . fastigiata, which was intro- 

 duced to the Botanic Garden at Ghent in 1830 by 

 Von Siebold. It is commonly cultivated in the 

 warmer parts of this country but is not hardy in 

 eastern Massachusetts. The branches are strictly 

 erect and the leaves, which spread on all sides of 

 the shoot, are leathery and blackish green. 



There are other trees of fastigiate and pyramidal 

 habit but finality is not attempted, and this chapter 

 may fittingly conclude with reference to a remark- 

 ably distinct and valuable variety of our old friend 

 Ginkgo hiloha. 



This form {fastigiata), with its compact ascending 

 branches, has a bright future before it as a street and 

 avenue tree. The oldest and finest trees known grow 

 in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, concerning which 

 the Commissioners courteously supplied the follow- 

 ing information: "There are five specimens of the 

 pyramidal form of Maidenhair-tree, Ginkgo hiloha, 

 at Horticultural Hall. One measures 3 feet 2| 

 inches in circumference and is 36 feet high ; the other 

 four measure from 4 feet 5 inches to 4 feet g\ inches 

 in circumference and are from 45 to 55 feet high. 

 The one with the smallest circumference has two 



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