FROM AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE OF N. S. WALES. 



April, 1907. 

 Miscellaneous Publication, No. 1,072. 



Forestry. 



SOME PRACTICAL NOTES ON FORESTRY SUITABLE FOR NEW 



SOUTH WALES. 



J. H. MAIDEN, 



Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



XVII. 



Conifers. 

 I. 



I NOW propose to give lists of plants suitable for cultivation in New South 

 Wales, but it is obvious that in the first place we must endeavour to obtain 

 a settled nomenclature. In no group of plants is the nomenclature more 

 unsettled than in the Conifers. 



I give a list of the genera from three works : 



1. Eichler, in Engler's " Nat-Pflanzenfamilien." (1889.) 



2. Engler's " Syllabus der Pfianz^nfamilien." (1898.) 



3. Veitch's "Manual of the Conifers," by Adolphus H. Kent. (1900.) 



It will be observed that Veitch's Tribe Salisburinese is partly Engler's 

 Taxese of the Family Taxacese. 



Veitch's Tribe Taxinese is Engler's Family Taxacese with Salisburinese 

 excluded. 



Eichler divides the Family Coniferse into the two Sub-families Pinoidese 

 and Taxoidese. 



Engler c*lls Coniferre a " Class " (abolishing the old name Natural Ord^r 

 for it), arid divides it into two Families, Taxacere and Pinaceee. 



There are some minor differences of sequence in the three schemes. 



I believe that, in a few years, the three classifications will fall into line. 



For the purpose of the present work, I think it will be a convenience to 

 English readers if the classification of Veitch's Manual be employed almost 

 in its entirety. I hope that we shall have a Conifer Conference shortly to 

 determine nomenclature as far as it is possible to attain finality in a case like 

 this. 



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