342 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



(618) — Taxus canadensis. The latter is the more hardy, doing well even 

 in Canada, while the former needs protection in Massachusetts. T. baccata 

 is much the taller and tree-like, sometimes reaching the height of 60 feet, 

 ■whUe T. canadensis is generally a prostrate shrub rarely reaching the 

 height of 5 feet. The first is generally dioecious, while the last is rarely 

 so, and therefore nearly all plants old enough will have berries. The 

 leaves of T. canadensis are narrower, shorter, and of a more yellowish 

 green, and its fruit ripens a month or two earlier than the European 

 species. 



The English Yew — Taxus baccftta — has many cultivated forms with 

 variegated foliage or less erect growth, among which may be mentioned : 

 Silvery Yew — arg^ntea, — with whitish-striped leaves; Golden Yew 



(619) — aiirea, — with golden-yellow-edged leaves; Fisher's Yew — Eish- 

 eri, — with some of the leaves deep yellow throughout ; Jackson's Yew — 

 Jicksoni or pfedula, — with weeping tips to the branches ; Shokt-leaved 

 Yew (620) — adpr^ssa, — with long spreading branches and short leaves 

 J inch or less long; Spkeading English Yew (621) — prociimbens, — 

 prostrate. 



