576 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
The American Yew, T. canadensis, is a spreading savin-like 
shrub that grows as if around the bottom of a bowl. Of no 
value. 
The Cluster-flowered Yews. Cephalotaxus . — These are 
modern additions to the family of yews introduced from China and 
Japan, that promise to be more hardy than the English yew, and 
to bear our sun without injury. Those we have seen are many- 
branched, wide-spreading shrubs with long thick leaves. 
The Plum-fruited Yew. Cephalotaxus driipacce ( Podocarpus 
drupacea; Taxus japoiiica). — Growing in the north of China, it is 
described as a compact evergreen tree, from twenty to thirty feet 
high, found wild on the mountains, and cultivated in the gardens. 
“ The leaves are arranged in two rows, laterally along the branches, 
regularly opposite, rather close, leathery, stiff linear, slightly curved 
or falcate, bluntly tapering to a short acute spiney point * * from 
three-quarters to one and one-fourth inches long, of a deep glossy 
green above,” etc. (Gordon). Branches straight, stiff, and spread- 
ing; branchlets in two flat lateral rows, short and numerous. 
Believed to be hardy at New York and Fishkill. 
Fortune’s Cephalotaxus. C. fortunii mascnla, C. f femina. 
— These are male and female plants, both of which are known 
by the above popular name, but the femina is said to be less hardy 
than the mascnla. We consider this one of the prettiest evergreen 
acquisitions of late years. In its early growth it forms a spreading 
shrub or bushy tree with many branches and branchlets, the latter of 
a light green color that contrast prettily with the pure deep green 
of the long stiff leaves, which are about two inches in length. The 
branchlets are generally described as drooping at the ends, but the 
specimens we have seen had not that character. Parsons & Co.’s 
best specimen is about seven feet high, and eight or nine feet in 
diameter, and of such peculiar appearance as to attract at once 
any observer of shrubs and trees. In China it is found from forty 
to sixty feet high, and the branches are represented to droop 
gracefully. So far we can only regard it in this country as a 
promising evergreen shrub which has proved hardy around New 
York, but which should be insured by adequate winter protec- 
