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The Garden Magazine, March, 1921 
THE MOST POPULAR FORM OF JAPANESE YEW 
This is the one grown in nurseries under the name of Taxus cuspidata brevifolia and is most com- 
mon because it is the most easily rooted from cuttings. It is not to be confused with the Californian 
Taxus brevifolia, nor the variety of the English Yew also so-called and which is not hardy 
fectly columnar. A few proved perfectly hardy. The major- 
ity were sent to Long Island, and are among Mr. Havemeyer’s 
most prized specimens. Among the purely English Yews there 
is less variation, and they are hardly distinguishable from the 
T. cuspidata type. 
Most of the seedlings of T. c. brevifolia vary from the parent 
plant which is about twice as broad as it is high. They usually 
take on a cone shape. A few of them are pigmies, or otherwise 
diminutive, and occasionally fantastic in character. Many do 
not differ from seedlings of the type in general appearance; the 
only notable distinction 1 can think of is that they are darker 
green in color, just as the Irish Yew is darker than the English. 
Some of the seedling Irish Yews went back to the typical 
English, and there are some handsome intermediate forms. 
ANOTHER ONE OF THE JAPANESE FORMS 
Grown as Taxus cuspidata Sieboldi. A free grower broadly vasiform; dense habit; leaves 
olive green, shorter, twigs thinner, than in typical cuspidata. Comes true from seed 
