TAXACEjE. — THE YEW TRIBE. 
admitted into cemeteries, there is not one 
so constant in funeral hues, and consequently, 
none so appropriate when rising in that place 
of " deep forgetfulness," to which it has been 
so universally assigned. Plants, one year's 
seedlings, 20*. per thousand; two years' seed- 
lings, 30*. per thousand ; and three years' 
seedlings, 40*. per thousand. One year's 
transplanted plants, 5s. per hundred ; two years' 
transplanted, 7s. 6d. per hundred. 
Varieties. — T. baccata erecla, is a plant 
preserving the character of the species in its 
leaves, yet assuming the same erect form as the 
Irish Yew. Variegated specimens have been 
propagated, but the marking is indistinct and 
apt to be lost. A stunted variety of the com- 
mon tree, with a procumbent or trailing habit, 
finds a place in Loddiges' Catalogue, under 
the title of T. j/roc'imbens. A plant with 
narrower and smaller leaves than those of the 
common, found in Maryland, bears the name, 
in some collections, of T. canadensis, but as 
AYilldenovv observes, comparing it with the 
common tree, "a specific difference is hard 
to be detected." Indeed, it would be very 
easy to select many varieties from a bed of 
seedlings ; and in plantations of grown trees, 
scarce two plants can be found with the habit 
and size of leaves and fruit alike. 
Taxus fastiffiata, Lindley (upright, or 
Irish Yew.) — This very much resembles the 
upright cypress in the mode of its growth. 
The leaves of this species are not in rows, but 
proceed irregularly from the branches on all 
sides : they are of a deep green colour, some- 
what larger than those of T. baccata ; and 
the plant altogether is much more ornamental 
than the common species. No tree rises with 
more grace on the well-kept lawn ; it is of an 
elegant, tapering, compact form, and is well 
calculated to remind one of the sweetest Italian 
scenes, especially if the ground-work in the 
neighbourhood is only in keeping with the 
place where it is grown. There are but very 
few old specimens of this tree in England, 
and hence it is deficient in association. In 
Ireland, at Comber, in the county of Down, 
there is a specimen twenty-five feet in height, 
but it assumes a habit by no means charac- 
teristic of the species, its form being that of 
an inverted cone, its head measuring sixteen 
and a half feet in diameter. The natural 
habit is strictly tapering. 
This species may be readily propagated by 
cuttings, planted under glass in September, 
in an equal mixture of peat, road-sand, or 
other inland sand, and light loam. The 
cuttings should be shaded either permanently 
by a fence, or with mats fastened over them 
in such a way as to admit light from the 
north. The hand-glass or frame should not 
be removed except temporarily until the 
plants have begun to make shoots, which will 
be in June and July following ; and in no 
Torreya 
case are they to be exposed to the fierce mid- 
day sun until they have fully established 
themselves as plants fit for removal into nur- 
sery lines. The propagation of this plant 
will well repay all the trouble of the amateur 
or nurseryman, for it is one of those shrubs 
always iu demand, and with which the market 
is never overstocked. 
Tokreta, Arnott. — This genus was named 
by Dr. Arnott, in compliment to Dr. Torrey, 
a clever American botanist, and one of the 
authors of the North American Flora. 
taxifolia. 
Torreya taxifolia, Arnott (yew-leaved 
Torreya). — This is the only species. It is au 
evergreen tree, with forked branches, and has 
something the character and appearance of the 
hemlock-spruce fir. The branches are clothed 
with simple, linear, sharp-pointed leaves, ar- 
ranged in two ranks, one on each side of the 
branches. The fruit is ovate, covered externally 
by a leathery integument having a small open- 
ing at the top, and is about the size of a nutmeg. 
It is a native of Florida, occurring on chalky 
hills, along the eastern bank of the river Ap- 
