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specimens have been through two winters without any injury 

 — it is certainly with us quite as hardy as the Irish yew. It 

 is reported to us as hardy at Flushing and at two different 

 places in Georgia, but being new and costly it has not as yet 

 been tried anywhere else. 



P. Andina (The Andes podocarpus). — Another prettj', small 

 gy„,_ tree, ten to twenty feet high, from the Alpine 



p. Taxus spieato. regions of South Chili, with a broader and 

 more leathery leaf than the preceding variety ; our specimen 

 is out, for first time, this winter, and we have but one return 

 about it, which is from Augusta, and is satisfactory. 



P- coriacea (Leathery-leaved podocarpus). — This variety 

 Syn. comes from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, 



Taxus lancifoiia. ai],j also the Antilles, growing fifty feet high. 

 We have more doubt about this than the two above, and we 

 liave but one return, from Flushing, L. I., where it is marked 

 " hardy." 



P. taxifolia (Yew-leaved podocarpus). — Thereis no question 

 ^y„ we think, of the hardihood of this variety 



Taxtt8 montana. 'We have had it out three years without 



injury. It resembles still more the Irish 



yew, than P. Japonica. It comes from the mountains of Peru, 



at an elevation of eight thousand feet, where it is a tree of 



sixty feet. We have no returns. 



There is one other variety, not yet received into this country, 

 to our knowledge, which promises better than any of the above, 

 viz. : Podocarpus Nuhigena, which is described as one of the 

 finest, as it is unquestionably one of the hardiest and most dis- 

 tinct, of all the conifers introduced -within a few years. It is a 

 native of Patagonia and is found also on the Andes, near the 

 Araucaria imbricata, which tree it much resembles — the 

 branches being produced at reg;ilar distances like it. 



Saxe Gothaa coiispicua. Psince Albert's Yew. 



Syn, Taxiu Fategoaics. 

 A genus by itself, and this the only species ; a small bush or 

 tree found on the mountains of Patagonia, growing thirty feel 

 high, with veiy much the habit and appearance of the common 



