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almost always in evergreen woods. It is found in 
some localities in Illinois among rocks, in company 
with the Red Cedar, where it is uniformly a prostrate 
straggling shrub. I have seen it in cold, dark ever- 
green forests in New England; the prostrate stem 
extending ten or fifteen feet, buried and rooted in the 
leaves and mould, and throwing up, at intervals of 
one or two feet, nearly upright branches from two to 
four or even five feet in height. From this mode of 
growth it is often called Running Hemlock. In such 
situations it retains the dark green of its foliage un- 
changed through the winter. This variety is perfectly 
hardy, and attains a greater size in cultivation than 
when growing wild. Like the English Yew, it may 
be pruned into almost any form. Except when it is 
thickly shaded, the foliage becomes rusty or dingy 
during the winter. 
There are a number of varieties of European ori- 
gin, but they are little if at all more hardy than the 
English Yew. Other species exist- which are not 
generally known, or as yet well tested. 
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