i94 Coniferous Crees. 



young trees are very effective on the lawn, and they may be 

 used with great advantage for mixed groups of coniferous 

 trees. In ravines and among stones and rocks on high river 

 banks is their ideal home, and they may be used to form a 

 background for rockeries with the best result. They grow 

 well in any moderately good and naturally drained soil. As 

 the hemlock may be pruned without injury, the habit may 

 be rendered more compact by judicious pruning of the 

 youug trees, but a free and natural growth is generally to 

 be preferred. 



Larch, Larix Ev/ropcea. — This deciduous tree is excellent 

 in woods and shrubberies or in groups of evergreen trees 

 where the tender green of its leaves in spring is very effect- 

 ive. In early spring, when the leaves unfold, the tree is 

 very fragrant. The European larch is a large forest tree 

 with valuable wood, and it is one of the best and most 

 profitable species for forest-planting. It is of an erect and 

 slender habit with an ovate, pointed crown and light feathery 

 clusters of leaves. It grows.in any moderately good soil. 



Cedar, Oedo'US. — The cedars are not quite hardy in the 

 Northern States. They are very ornamental trees with 

 broad, rounded crowns and horizontal branches of a dark 

 green or glaucous color. The Cedar of Lebanon (C. IAba- 

 noticd) is probably the most hardy. It will grow as far north 

 as New York in sheltered positions, and probably much far- 

 ther north. This species is of a more rigid habit than the 

 Deodar (('. deodard), a Himalayan tree of great beauty, 

 with a light feathery spray, slender arching branches, and 

 glaucous leaves. The cedars are exceptionally beautiful 

 trees for small clumps, and as specimens on the lawn. A 



