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PINACEiE. 



found ranging from five to fifty feet in height. When fully grown it 

 will, whatever its height, be generally found with a short stem or 

 trunk, and an ample, bushy head, densely branched, and literally 

 covered mth dark sombre-green leaves, which when matured all assume 

 a drooping habit. It is valuable for its timber, and most useful for its 

 adaptation to almost all descriptions of soils, climates, and altitudes, 

 and for every description of planting, whether useful or ornamental j 

 thoroughly hardy, though of slow growth, and an indispensable tree. 



Of its numerous forms or varieties, all of which, however, are only 

 to be considered as useful, and more or less beautiful small sized trees 

 or shrubs, I select the following : — 



Argentea, (the silvery-variegated variety,) having some of its branches 

 clothed mth leaves which are of a creamy- white on their margins, and 

 at their points ; which mixed with the green ones, renders the spray 

 very pretty. 



Aurea, this is the golden-variegated variety, in nothing but the 

 colour different from the preceding variety. 



BrevifoUa, (the short-leaved variety,) this has much shorter, and 

 more rounded leaves than the prototype ; and is a distinct variety of the 

 Yew. 



Epacriodes, (the epacris-like variety,) an elegant, distinct, numerous- 

 branched, dark-green-leaved, prickly -habited, ornamental plant. 



Erecta, (the erect-growing variety,) differing from the pyramidal 

 variety in its more rounded base, cyhndrical form, and the more stem- 

 clasping habit of its branches. 



Erecioides, (the heath-like variety,) a small-leaved, slender-branched, 

 numerous-sprigged little pigmy ; and a pretty shrub. 



Fructus-LuteuSy (the yellow-fruited.) 



Glaucus, (the glaucous-leaved.) 



Gracilis, (the slender-branched.) 



Nana, (the dwarf.) 



Nigra, (the very-dark-green-leaved.) 



These five kinds are all thoroughly hardy, and useful shrubs ; and 

 their names explain their character and variety. 



Pendula, (the pendent or drooping-branched variety ;) when left to 

 ITature its branches scarcely ever are inclined to grow erect or ascend 

 upwards ; but when this kind is grafted or inarched upon a stem of the 

 common, or some of its straight and tall growing varieties, then we 

 have what we term a " Weeping Yew : " and there is again of this 

 pendula several forms, found in catalogues and collections under such 



