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the conclusion that in this latitude, the Cedar of Lebanofi may 
be considered fairly hardy, but “ slow and though not grow- 
ing with much rapidity, and occasionally liable to lose a little 
in the winter of what it has made in the summer, yet on the 
whole, like the tortoise in the fable, we believe it will come out 
first in the end, and should be much more generally planted. 
At Washington, Mr. Saul writes us, it is perfectly hardy, 
specimens in the Capitol grounds being twelve feet high ; and 
at Yorkville, it is returned as hardy ; but at Flushing and at 
Elizabethtown its reputation is a little qualified, though sup- 
posed to become hardy as it advances. At Augusta, Ga., it is 
straggling and uncertain ; and in Ohio, both in the neighbor- 
hood of Columbus and Cincinnati, it is very much injured by 
severe winters. 
Cephalotaxus. The Cluster-Flowered Yews. 
This fine genus, as yet very new, deriving its name (KstpaX'/] 
— kephale — a head, and Ta gig — taxis — arrangement), from the 
flowers and fruit growing in close, globular heads, is likely, we 
think, to become a great acquisition in this country. With us 
it has proved quite as hardy as the Common English yew, 
and although like that plant, the foliage is much finer and 
darker in the shade, yet we have had no difficulty, for the past 
three years, in growing it in the sun. 
The only varieties as yet known here, we think, are : 
Cephalotaxus Fortuni — mas. and femina — (Fortune’s Male 
and Female cephalotaxus), found by Mr. Fortune in the north 
of China, particularly in the province Yang-Sin, and also in 
Japan, growing from forty to fifty feet high — the foliage, not 
unlike that of the torreya, is longer and wider than the yew. 
With us the male plant seems the most hardy, the female hav- 
ing suffered somewhat in the winter of 185 6-7. 
C. drupacea — (The Plum-fruited cephalotaxus), is another 
fine variety which has proved hardy with us. It resembles 
very much the Irish yew, and also the Taxus , or more properly 
the Podocarpus Japonica. Mr. Carriere, in his excellent work 
on Conifers, makes it a synonym of the Female cephalotaxus 
Fortuni, but our plant certainly differs much from this, in hay- 
ing both darker and shorter foliage; grows about 20 feet high. 
Cephalotaxus pedunculata , and C. umbraculifera , are the 
