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the conclusion that in this latitude, the Cedar of Lebanon may 

 be considered fairly hardy, but " slow ;" and though not grow- 

 ing with much rapidity, and occasionally liable to lose a little 

 in the winter of what it has made in the summer, yet on the 

 whole, like the tortoise in the fable, we believe it will come out 

 first in the end, and should be much more generally planted. 



At Washington, Mr. Saul writes us, it is perfectly hardy, 

 specimens in the Capitol grounds being twelve feet high ; and 

 at Yorkville, it is returned as hardy ; but at Flushing and at 

 Elizabethtown its reputation is a little qualified, though sup- 

 posed to become hardy as it advances. At Augusta, Ga., it is 

 straggling and uncertain ; and in Ohio, both in the neighbor- 

 hood of Columbus and Cincinnati, it is very much injured by 

 severe winters. 



Gephalotaxus. The Cluster- Flowered Yews. 



This fine genus, as yet very new, deriving its name (Ks^aX'>i 

 — ^kephale^a head, and Tafij — taxis — arrangement), from the 

 flowers and fruit growing in close, globular heads, is likely, we 

 think, to become a great acquisition in this country. With us 

 it has proved quite as hardy as the Common English yew, 

 and although like that plant, the foliage is much finer and 

 darker in the shade, yet we have had no diflSculty, for the past 

 three years, in growing it in the sun. 



The only varieties as yet known here, we think, are : 



Oephaloiaxus Fortuni — mas. and femina — (Fortune's- Male 

 and Female cephalotaxus), found by Mr. Fortune in the north 

 of China, particularly in the province Yang-Sin, and also in 

 Japan, growing from forty to fifty feet high — ^the foliage, not 

 unlike that of the torreya, is longer and wider than the yew. 

 With us the male plant seems the most hardy, the female hav- 

 ing suffered somewhat in the winter of 1856-7. 



0. drupacea — (The Plum-fruited cephalotaxus), is another 

 fine variety which has proved hardy with us. It resembles 

 very much the Irish yew, and also the Tcucus, or more properly 

 the Podocarpus Japonica. Mr. Carriere, in his excellent work 

 on Conifers, makes it a synonym of the Female cephalotaxus 

 Fortuni, but our plant certainly differs much from this, in hav- 

 ing both darker and shorter foliage; grows about 20 feet high. 



Cephalotaxus pedunculata, and C. urnhmculifera, are the 



