. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. TAXUS TEA 1773 in diameter: bark bright red: branches ascending: lvs. usually falcate, thickish, distinctly and abruptly mucronate, dark green above, pale fulvous green or pale green beneath, %-l in. long: fr. like th
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. TAXUS TEA 1773 in diameter: bark bright red: branches ascending: lvs. usually falcate, thickish, distinctly and abruptly mucronate, dark green above, pale fulvous green or pale green beneath, %-l in. long: fr. like that of T. baccata, Japan. Very similar to T. liucnila, but branches more upright, stouter and lvs. somewhat broader, more abruptly mucronate and thicker in tex- ture. Var. nana, Hort. ( T. brevifdliu, not Nutt.), is a dwarf compact form with shorter leaves. Canadensis, Marsh. (T. baccata, var. minor, Michx. , var. Canadensis, Gray. T. minor, Britt.). Fig. 2471. Prostrate shrub, with wide-spreading slen- der branches, rarely more than ;i ft. high: lvs. shorter and narrower, less crowded and of a lighter, more yel- lowish green than those of T. baccata, assuming in win- ter usually a reddish tint: fr. ripens about 2 months earlier than that of T. baccata: lis. monoecious (at least usually). Newfoundland to Manitoba, south to Va. and Iowa. 1:61. V. 14:252. —In cultivation it 1 >mes usually a more upright and less straggling shrub. T. breeifblia, Nutt. Tree, 40-50 or occasionally 80 ft. high, with slender horizontal or somewhat pendulous branches forming a broad,open, pyramidal head: lvs. sharply pointed, dark yellowish green.'.-', in. long. Brit. Col. to Calif. 10:514. Probably as hardy as T. baccata.—T. Flaridana, Chaptn. Bushy tree, 25 ft. high or sometimes shrubby: lvs. slender, %-l in. long, dark green. Fla. Hi:515. Alfred Rehder. United States, are facts sufficiently well known as to require no elaboration in the present article. The prese
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