880 LANDSCAPE GARDENING- 



SECTION V. 



EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 

 The History and Description of all the finest Hardy Evergreen Trees. Remarks on 



THEIR EFFECTS in LANDSCAPE GARDENING, InDIVIDUALLT AND IN CoMPOSlTIOll. 



Their Cultivation, etc. The Pines. The Firs. The Cedar of Lebanon, and the 

 Deodar Cedar. The Red Cedar. The Arbor Vita;. The Holly. The Yew, etc. 



Beneath the forest's skirt I rest, 



Whose branching Pines rise dark and high. 



And hear the breezes of the West 

 Among the threaded foHage sigh. 



Brtast. 



The Pine Tree. Pinus. 



Nat. Ord. Coniferae. Lin. Syst. Monoecia, Monadelphia. 



^ H E Pines compose by far the most 

 important genus of evergreen trees. 

 In either continent they form the 

 densest and m.ost extensive forests 

 known, and their wood in civil and naval architecture, 

 and for various other purposes, is more generally used 

 than any other. In the United States and the Canadas, 

 there are ten species ; in the territory west of the 

 Mississippi to the Pacific, including Mexico, there are 

 fourteen ; in Europe fourteen ; in Asia, eight, and in 

 Africa, two species. All the colder parts of the old world 



