YEWS 
are today's and tomorrow's pre-eminent evergreen. There is at least 
one variety of YEW that will fill every need for evergreens in the land- 
scape — in your garden. 
YEWS come in many styles, forms and textures; and in an assortment 
of rich dark greens. 
YEWS are very hardy and withstand severe winter cold. YEWS thrive 
in all fertile soils, except extremely heavy acid types. Even in acid soils 
they flourish if lime is added. 
In their various forms YEWS are used for many different landscape 
and garden purposes. But their supreme value is as hedges. Their dense 
habit of growth, their adaptability to pruning, their dignity, color and 
hardiness make YEWS the king of hedge plants. 
In the past the most popular YEWS for hedges have been two forms 
of the Japanese species; the erect and the spreading. These are excel- 
lent yet their forms are not the best possible for compact hedges, as 
the diagrammatic sketch below illustrates, with the open triangular spaces 
between plants. While this situation may be remedied in time by heavy 
and constant shearing, this processing retards development of the hedge. 
JAPANESE | HYBRID 
COMPARATIVE FORMS OF YEWS FOR HEDGES. 
NEW HYBRID YEWS 
To overcome this fault new strains have been developed. The HYBRID 
YEWS are the result; they are the perfect Hedge YEWS. 
These HYBRID YEWS were primarily developed by the late T. D. 
Hatfield of the famous Hunnewell Estate. His work was continued by 
Richard M. Wyman, a widely-known nearby nurseryman, from whom we 
have fortunately been able to secure propagating material of these im- 
proved YEWS. 
These HYBRID YEWS are definitely superior. They have all the good 
features of the older types; their principal improvements consist of in- 
finitely better forms for hedge use. As indicated in the sketch, their 
habits of branching leave very little space between plants. This means 
that they require very little pruning; the least loss of growth; they make 
greatest net effective growth per year. 
At present we offer these HYBRID YEWS in two varieties — one tall 
rapid-grower, and one medium-small type, Each is "tops" in its class. 
