THE NEWER EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 533 
a strong, disagreeble smell, and named after Dr. Torrey, the 
celebrated American botanist. 
T. grandis (The Grand Torreya). — Discovered by Fortune 
in northern part of China, as a large tree with a spreading 
head, but so resembling a Cephalotaxus (which most of the 
others do) as to render it uncertain whether it may not yet 
prove one. It is considered very desirable whatever it may 
be, but just introduced into England and not yet, to our know- 
ledge, here. 
myristica (Californian nutmeg).— -A small, bushy tree, 
twenty to forty feet high, with spreading horizontal branches, 
found on the Sierra Nevada, in California ; quite hardy in Eng- 
land and likely to prove so here. Our specimens are out for 
first winter, and we have no returns. Like all the Torreyas, 
emitting a most disagreeable odor when bruised or burnt, and 
called by emigrants the Stinking yew or California nutmeg. 
T. nucifera (Nut-bearing Torreya). — This is out with us at 
Wodenethe, for the first winter, and we have no returns 
about it. It is another small tree, twenty to thirty feet high, 
found on the mountains of Niphon and Sikok, in Japan, where 
an oil is made from the kernel of the nuts, used there for cu- 
linary purposes. The nut itself, and the leaves and branches, 
have the distinguishing characteristic of all the Torreyas — a 
disagreeable odor. 
T. taxifolla (Yew-leaved Torreya.) — This is one of our 
Syn. greatest accessions in the Middle States — be- 
Taxus montana. j n g now perfectly hardy with us, as already 
described in our introductory chapter on evergreens, and very 
distinctive. 
It is a handsome pyramidal tree, with numerous spreading 
branches, growing from forty to fifty feet high, found in the 
middle and northern parts of Florida, where it is commonly 
known by the inhabitants as Stinking cedar and Wild nutmeg. 
Our best specimen (fig. 96), is about eight feet high, very 
dense, showing nothing but foliage, like a thrifty arbor vitie, 
and remarkable, particularly in winter, for the star-like ap- 
pearance of the extreme tips of its young shoots. 
We have returns of this tree from Elizabethtown, N. J , 
Dobb’s Ferry, Yorkville, Flushing and Newport, in all of 
