Irish yew

The proposal would replace a Deodar Cedar tree that is obscuring the sculpture with three eight- to 10-foot-tall Irish yew trees.

It is not only clipped trees that are ugly, but even trees like the Irish Yew, Welling60tonia, and some Arbor-vit�, which frequently assume shapes like extinguishers or the forms of clipped trees.

Drooping, mournful trees seemed particularly to appeal to him, for the very rare weeping hemlock, like a black fountain, was there as well as the weeping larch, with its small cones; and a veritable army of white pines, Norway spruces, balsam firs, and the red cedar that in its blackish stateliness is so like the Irish yew.

Plates 73, 74, 76;Irish Yew, 79 THE END.

Its leaves are like those of the Black Poplar, but its branches, instead of spreading, all grow straight upwards, so that the fastigiate or spire shape of the tree is produced—a shape only found otherwise among coniferous trees, particularly in the Cypress, the Juniper and the Irish Yew.