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Dendr. ii. 96. Cephalotaxns tardiva, Sieb. Mss. ; Endl. Conif. 239. 

 C. adpressa, hort. C. brevifolia, hort. 



This variety is perhaps, in Norway, only to be found at Laurvik 

 (59° 3'), where it has done well for several years. In Sweden it 

 thrives well at Lund in Skaane (55° 42'), but poorly enough at 

 Stockholm (59° 20'). AVe have very finely developed shrubs of it in 

 different parts of Denmark. 



T. b. adpressa stricta, hort. T. b. verticillata, hort. T. 

 adpressa strida, hort. T. a. erecta, hort. T. a. fastigiata, hort. 



T. b. Dovastonii, Carr. Rev. Hort. 1861, 175. T. pendula, 

 hort. T. Dovastonii, hort. T. umbracuUfera, hort. T. cuspidata, 

 Sieb. and Zucc, Koch, Dendr. ii. 97. Ceplialotaxus umbracidifera, 

 Sieb. (in Endl. Syn. Conif. 239). 



The Westfelton Yew stands in the grounds of T. F. M. Dovaston, 

 Esq. , at Westfelton, near Shrewsbury, and the following account has 

 been sent to us by that gentleman: "About sixty years ago, my 

 father, John Dovaston, a man without education, but of unwearied 

 industry and ingenuity, had, with his own hands, sunk a well, and 

 constructed and placed a pump in it ; and the soil being light and 

 sandy, it continually fell in. He secured it with wooden boards ; but, 

 foreseeing their speedy decay, he planted near to the well a Yew tree 

 which he bought of a cobbler for sixpence, rightly judging that the 

 fibrous and matting tendency of the Yew roots would hold up the 

 soil. They did so, and, independently of its utility, the Yew grew into 

 a tree of the most extraordinary and striking beauty, spreading 

 horizontally all round to the diameter of (now, 1836) 56 feet, with a 

 single aspiring leader to a great height, each branch in every direction 

 dangling in tressy verdure downwards ; tlie lower ones to the very 

 ground, pendulous and playful as the most graceful Birch or Weeping 

 Willow, and visibly obedient to the feeblest breath of summer air. 

 Its foliage is admirably adapted for retaining the dewdrops, and, in 

 consequence, it makes a splendid appearance at sunrise. Though a 

 male tree, it has one entire branch self -productive and exuberantly 

 profuse in female berries, full, red, rich, and luscious, from which I 

 have raised several plants, in the hope that they may inherit some of 

 the beauty of their parent" (Loud. Arbor, et Frut. Brit.). 



T. b. ericoides, hort. (the Heath-like Yew). T. ericoides, hort. 

 T. empetri folia, hort. T. micropliylla , hort. T. baccata micropliijlla, 

 hort. 



A small, slender, slow-growing variety, with very small dark 

 green foliage, and rather short, erect, slender twigs, very distinct in 

 appearance, and only from one to two feet high. 



T. b. fastigiata, Loud. Encycl. of Trees, 939, f. 1751. T. h. 

 liibemica, hort. T. fastigiata, Lindl. and Gord. Joiu-n. Hort. Soc. 

 V. 227. T. hibernica, Hook. Mack. Fl. Hybern. 260. T. pyra- 

 midalis^ hort. aliq. 



