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the variety named robusia is much more so, and worthy of a 

 place amongst choice weeping trees. 



Of Yews, Taxus baccata Dovasioni (Fig. 306) is very effective. 

 T. b. IT. aurea pendula, with pale green leaves, striped and 

 margined with golden-yellow, is equally handsome. T. b. pendula 

 is a splendid shrub for small gardens. Worked on stocks a few 

 feet from the ground its pendulous branches fall evenly on all 

 sides, and soon assume an umbrella-like form; its foliage is of 







Fig. 306. — Taxus baccata Dovastoni. 



the darkest green. One of the most beautiful and useful ot 

 weeping trees is the pendulous form of Ilex Aquifolium ; its 

 deep glossy green leaves are always pleasing, and the bright red 

 berries add colour to it in winter. J. A. argentea pendula has 

 long arching shoots clothed with grey and soft green foliage. 

 Another beautiful silver-leaved kind is /. A. pendula picta. Of 

 golden-leaved sorts /. A. pendula aurea is deserving of Wider 

 culture, being of free growth and very ornamental. 



