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specimens have been through two winters without any injury 
— it is certainly with us quite as hardy as the Irish yew. It 
is reported to us as hardy at Flushing and at two different 
places in Georgia, but being new and costly it has not as yet 
been tried anywhere else. 
P. Andina (The Andes podocarpus).— Another pretty, small 
S yn . tree, ten to twenty feet high, from the Alpine 
P. Taxus spicata. regions of South Chili, with a broader and 
more leathery leaf than the preceding variety ; our specimen 
is out, for first time, this winter, and we have but one return 
about it, which is from Augusta, and is satisfactory. 
P. coriacea (Leathery-leaved podocarpus). — This variety 
S yn . comes from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, 
Taxus lancifolia. an d a l so the Antilles, growing fifty feet high. 
We have more doubt about this than the two above, and we 
have but one return, from Flushing, L. I., where it is marked 
41 hardy.” 
P. taxifolia (Yew-leaved podocarpus).— Thereis no quetions 
gyn we think, of the hardihood of this variety 
Taxus montana. We have had it out three years without 
Toneya Huruboidn. injury. It resembles still more the Irish 
yew, than P. Japonica. It comes from the mountains of Peru, 
at an elevation of eight thousand feet, where it is a tree of 
sixty feet. We have no returns. 
There is one other variety, not yet received into this country, 
to our knowledge, which promises better than any of the above, 
viz. : Podocarpus Nubigena , which is described as one of the 
finest, as it is unquestionably one of the hardiest and most dis- 
tinct, of all the conifers introduced within a few years. It is a 
native of Patagonia and is found also on the Andes, near the 
Araucaria imbricata, which tree it much resembles — the 
branches being produced at regular distances like it. 
Saxe Gothcea conspicua. Prince Albert’s Yew. 
Syn. Taxus Patagonica. 
A genus by itself, and this the only species ; a small bush or 
tree found on the mountains of Patagonia, growing thirty feet 
high, with very much the habit and appearance of the common 
