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The Garden Magazine, March, 1921 
says that it makes a tree in China. It has been tried in 
various situations but sunburns more or less according to the 
winter. Hitherto it has made much late growth, which seem- 
ingly did not have time to mature. We have two or three nice 
specimens, which are doing well, and we think when the plants 
age more, they will settle down and mature their growth 
sufficiently to withstand our winters. 
T. c. fructo-aureo is a yellow fruited variety about which no 
more need be said than that it does not differ from the type in 
any other way. 
T. c. brevifolia enjoys a much greater popularity in the 
United States than does the type. One reason for this — 
purely a nurseryman’s reason, 1 think — is that it propagates 
more easily from cuttings. It is a pity the type has been 
neglected; for the upright form, which unfortunately did not 
come among our first specimens, grows into a handsome small 
tree, splendid specimens of which can be seen on some of the 
Long Island estates. T. c. brevifolia, because of its aforesaid 
ready propagation, is getting plentiful. In some places it is 
being used for hedges. Our largest specimen has a soread of 
thirty feet and a height of eight feet. 
JAPANESE 
AT WELIrE 
YEW 
SLEY 
Taxus cuspidata 
g row i n g i n t he 
Hunnewell arbore- 
tum, one of the old- 
est in cultivation 
and in splendid 
condition 
GEO. R. HALL, M. D. 
Born 1820 
Through whose keen in- 
terest in collecting plants 
during his voyages to 
Asia and establishing 
them on his father’s 
homestead at Warren, 
R. L, our gardens were 
greatly enriched. Hall’s 
Magnolia, Hall’s Honey- 
suckle, etc., are in the list 
specimen 8 x 5 ft. The habit is dense, 
and the leaves are shorter, and twigs 
thinner than in the typical T. cuspidata. 
In color, it is olive, not dark green like 
most of the type. It promises to make 
a large, handsome specimen, and is very 
much admired. It comes true from 
seed, in so far as the color and general 
character goes, but many of the seed- 
lings develop a leader, which the origi- 
nal does not. 
We have Wilson’s T. c. chinensis 
from seed collected bv Wilson, who 
THE FIRST INTRODUCED 
JAPANESE YEW 
Above is the original plant brought to Warren, 
R. L, by Dr. G. R. Hall about 1862, standing on 
part of the old Hall estate now owned by Mr. 
H. Clarke. The plant is not now in vigorous con- 
dition. (Photo by E. H. Wilson) 42 feet diameter 
T. canadensis, the Ground Hemlock, we have in one 
or two good specimens. Strange to say, although a native 
of the woods in our northern states, it is not hardy in 
the open here; or rather it burns, which amounts to the 
same thing. Another peculiar thing about T. canadensis is 
that it makes a tolerably good specimen of flat rather vase- 
like form in cultivation; while in the woods it hardly lifts 
itself off the ground making travelling, where it is common,, 
tedious work. 
During the collecting of these notes I have endeavored, as so 
often before, to discover real marks of distinction between our 
various types of Yews. The difficulty has increased with the 
growth into fairly good sized specimens of the seedlings raised 
