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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
North. The varieties, fastigiatum , pedulum, nutans, &c., are 
described under the head of Glyptostrobus. 
Taxus. The Yew. 
Great additions have been made to this class of ever- 
greens, since the first edition of this book, where only three 
foreign and one American varieties are mentioned, viz. : 
T. baccata (the Common English), T> fastigiata (the 
Upright yew), and the T. fructo-Jiava (Yellow-berried). 
Among the new ones which we have found hardy, are : 
1\ adpressa (Flattened or Creeping yew). — An exceedingly 
Syn. dark, striking bush, never, we believe, ex- 
Cephalotaxus adpressa, ce eding three feet high, but spreading 
horizontally ; with very minute close 
leaflets and pretty bright red berries, very desirable ; like all 
the yews, doing better in the shade. 
T. argentea and T. aurea (Silver and Golden yew). — These 
two are very beautiful and desirable varieties of the Common 
yew ; the first having silvery white-striped leaves, and the 
second golden. They seem perfectly hardy here. We 
have some Golden yews grafted standard high on the Green 
yew, which produces a very pleasing contrast. They are more 
commonly known in the English nurseries as Taxus elegans and 
Taxus elegantissima. 
T. Dovaston (Dovaston’s yew). — A singular Weeping 
Syn. variety of common English yew, found some years 
t. penduia, if vve remember aright, in the yard of a cob- 
bier near Shrewsbury ; described as pendulous as 
a birch or weeping willow ; quite hardy with us, and well 
worth cultivating. 
T. erecta (the Erect yew) — A slender variety of the com- 
Syn. mon English yew, with smaller foliage, and 
T sScta ldallS ’ more erect habit of growth ; sometimes called 
Fulham yew. It is thought by some cultiva- 
tors in this country to be hardier than the common English yew, 
though the latter with us, especially after a year or so, 
succeeds perfectly well, though possibly a little browned in 
very severe winters. 
