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tion. Ellwanger & Barry do not think it will prove hardy at Ro¬ 
chester. 
The female variety has lighter colored foliage than the other, 
and bears coral-colored oval berries as large as acorns. 
Harrington’s Yew. Cephalotaxus pedunculata (Taxus Har- 
ringtonia). —“ A handsome small evergreen tree, growing from 
twenty to twenty-five feet high, with numerous spreading branches, 
mostly in whorls around the stem; found abundantly in Japan, 
cultivated in gardens under the name of Junkaja” (Gordon). 
Hardly known yet in this country. 
Siebold’s Spreading Yew, Cephalotaxus umbraculifera , is 
another species from the northern parts of China, noted there for 
the horizontal extension of its branches. Not tested yet in this 
country. 
Fig. i S' 
The Podocarpus Yews. — This is a large branch of the family 
of yews which have been discovered within the last thirty years in 
China, Japan, and other parts of Asia, and South America. Most 
of them are tender, even in England; but there is reason to hope 
that a few will prove hardy in our northern States. But lately 
introduced in American collections, and now 
on trial. 
The Japan Podocarpus. —Podocarpus ja- 
ponica. —Gordon describes this species as fol¬ 
lows : “ Leaves alternate, flat, linear lanceolate, 
elongated, obtuse pointed, thick, leathery and 
stiff; from four to eight inches long, and about 
half an inch wide, with an elevated rib almost 
acute along the upper surface, but rounded 
on the under one, and tapering into a long, 
slender point at the apex, and into a short, 
stout foot-stalk at the base.” The color of the foliage is the dark¬ 
est of greens ; but the very unusual size of its leathery leaves gives 
it a marked appearance among evergreens, that, with its pretty 
erect habit, will doubtless make it popular wherever hardy. It is 
considered so at Flushing, L. I., and at Fishkill, N. Y.; but we 
have heard nothing from it in other places. Parsons’ specimen, 
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