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Title: The care of trees in lawn, street and park, with a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use
Identifier: CUbiodiversity1134698 (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard), 1851-1923
Subjects: Trees; Trees
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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Yews talis in the stoutness of its branches and the rigid bristling, spreading foliage, picturesque rather than ornamental. It is also very hardy. YEWS Taxus. This genus of small trees and shrubs, six species and many forms, furnishes some of the hardiest and most frugal conifers, well
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Fig 81 — English Yew Taxus baccata Linn. adapted for underplanting, as they bear shade well, indeed prefer shady positions, and grow very slowly; also wherever low forms are desired, and for hedges. Their rich, dark, glossy foliage, with a yellowish cast on the under side, give them somewhat of a funereal tone, which is increased by the remembrance of their frequent use in cemeteries, to which they lend themselves on accoimt of their very slow growth and their small, compact form, especially in the fastigiate forms. They are very useful in formal gardening and against formal architectural work. The red berries add to their attractiveness. They are usually planted as shiubs and in the many varieties of nurser)nxLen's forms.

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