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A STUDY OF YEWS AT HOLME LACY, HEREFORDSHIRE. 



variety Iutea has deep yellow foliage, while in 

 Vervseneana it is of a bronzy orange hue. A weeping 

 form (pendula) is also very noticeable. A. Thuja, 

 called Warreana, is considered the hardiest of the 

 Arborvilre group. 

 T. orientalis (the Chinese- Arborvitce).—T\as is a 

 common plant in gardens, usually of columnar habit, and 

 dense in growth. It is seldom seen much over 15ft. in 

 height. There are man)' varieties, the best being aurea 

 (the Golden Arborvitae), a dense globular bush, whose 

 young growth is of a rich yellow ; elegantissima, an 

 upright bush about 6ft. high, deep golden yellow in the 

 summer and bronzy orange in the winter ; pendula, 



with long whipcord-like shoots. Synonym, Biota 

 orientalis. 



Wellingtonia gigantea [the Mammoth y>-^).— This 



was discovered in 1852 in California, and no tree has 

 since that time attracted so much attention, its huge size, 

 which is its principal feature, forming the subject of many 

 pictures and stories. An estimated height of 350ft. has 

 been attained by the Wellingtonia, with a circumference 

 of 60ft. measured at I oft. from the ground. In this 

 country the Wellingtonia pushes up a straight trunk very 

 much thickened at the base, and regularly furnished with 

 branches, which shorten so gradually as to form a cone. 

 There is a weeping variety (pendula). 



