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Yew, continued 
Dwarf Japanese. T. cuspidata. var. brevi- 
folia. This is black-green in color, with 
short, stubby branches indicating great 
hardiness. We recommend it highly where 
a low evergreen of irregular, picturesque 
habit is needed. It will grow perhaps 3 feet 
high and 15 feet broad in twenty years, 
resembling in size the Common Juniper, 
but the branches spread horizontally from 
a stiff central trunk, whereas the Juniper 
has numerous trailing branches. 
Canadian. T . Canadensis. This carpets the 
damp forests. Some of the old botanies 
record it as native of Manhattan Island. 
In cultivation, it forms a beautiful cushion 
about 2 feet high and 15 feet wide, there 
being several old plants on Long Island 
that are hardy and handsome. 
Spreading. T. repandens. This is a beautiful 
and graceful plant growing 4 feet high and 
twice as broad. The branchlets arch grace- 
fully and make a dense, dark green plant. 
It is very rare and hardy, and, as the name 
does not appear in the horticultural books, 
we cannot say where it is native, but it 
appears to be quite hardy here. It will 
stand dense shade, but that does not 
mean the shade of a Silver Maple tree 
which would exhaust the moisture in the 
summer. 
English. T. baccata. This will grow in 
sheltered positions, and we recommend the 
purchase of these plants for a dark green 
cover under Locust trees or shady places 
in such valleys as Cold Spring and Roslyn, 
Englemann's Spruce at residence of Mr. James A. Blair, Oyster 
Bay, L. I. 
Canadian Yew (Taxus Canadensis) as a carpet bordering a path. 
Now that we offer hardy varieties of the Yew family, some of them 
being varieties not elsewhere listed, we trust they 
will be used in landscape planting. 
Yew, English, continued 
or for planting about houses on the east 
end of Long Island where the ocean cli- 
mate is favorable. 
Golden English. T. baccata, var. elegan- 
tissima. We have a stock of plants twenty 
years old that have been grown on Long 
Island and demonstrate the frequent ex- 
pression that the Golden variety is hardier 
than the species. They can be used in a 
garden or planted in tubs. 
There are thousands of families in apart- 
ments, flats and tenements that should be 
bringing up their children, all the year, in the 
country. Tunnels and electric traction and 
automobiles and the comparative cost will 
soon compel or permit living in the country. 
It is objected that the country in winter is 
bleak, windswept, lacks beauty and privacy. 
Evergreens will cure this. 
There are other objections to all -the - 
year country residence, — social, educational, 
amusement, water supply, domestic service, 
certainty and promptness of transportation, 
that evergreens cannot cure, but these objec- 
tions are yearly lessening. 
We have the largest size, largest quantity, 
cheapest, most hardy and cheerful evergreens 
offered in the northeastern United States. 
