. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 188 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS. Taxus cuspidata. slightly 2-angled and slightly compressed, with orbicular hilum. Central China.—Introduced in 1908 to the Arnold Arboretum. Hardy as far north as Massachusetts only in sheltered places. The plants in cultivation are yet too young to allow an opinion regarding the ornamental merits of this yew; its foliage is of lighter color than that of the following species; in its nativ
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. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 188 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS. Taxus cuspidata. slightly 2-angled and slightly compressed, with orbicular hilum. Central China.—Introduced in 1908 to the Arnold Arboretum. Hardy as far north as Massachusetts only in sheltered places. The plants in cultivation are yet too young to allow an opinion regarding the ornamental merits of this yew; its foliage is of lighter color than that of the following species; in its native country it produces fruit in great profusion. 3. T. cuspidata, Sieb. & Zucc. (T. baccata var. cuspidata, Carr.). Japa- nese Y. Fig. 27. Plate IV. A tree with spread- ing or upright spreading branches, attaining a height of 50 feet; trunk with reddish-brown bark; branchlets usually brown the second year: leaves incompletely 2-ranked, the ranks more or less upright and forming a V-shaped trough, usually falcate, abruptly mucronate, abruptly contracted at base into a distinct yellowish stalk, dark and rather dull green above, with 2 broad tawny yellow or pale bands below, ^-1 inch long, and about i/g inch broad, thickish; petiole abruptly enlarged into the leaf-cushion: fruit ripening in September and October, the aril with an opening narrower than the seed which is ovoid, compressed, slightly 3-4-angled, about }4 inch long, with oval hilum. Japan, Korea, and Manchuria.—Introduced about 1855 to England by Fortune and into this country in 1862 by Dr. G. R. Hall. It is perfectly hardy as far north as Massachusetts and Ontario; it is the most vigorous of the yews and its dark green foliage retains its color through the winter. Var. capitafa, Hort., does not differ from the typical plant. Var. aurescens, Rehd. (T. tardiva aurea, Hort.). Low form with the leaves of the young branchlets deep yellow, changing later to green. Var. nana, Rehd. (var. brevifolia, Hort. Amer. var. c