VEITCH'S MANUAL 



OF 



THE CONIFERJE, 



CONTAINING 



A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE ORDER ; A SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES CULTIVATED 



IN GREAT BRITAIN ; THEIR BOTANICAL HISTORY, ECONOMIC PROPERTIES, 



PLACE AND USE IN ARBORICULTURE, ETC., ETC. 



A NEW AND GREATLY ENLARGED EDITION 



BY 



ADOLPHUS H. KENT. 



" Science has its own peculiar terms and, so to speak, its idioms of language ; and these it would 

 be unwise, were it even possible, to relinquish ; but everything that tends to clothe it in a strange and 

 repulsive garb, and especially everything that assumes an unnecessary guise of profundity and obscurity> 

 should be sacrificed without mercy." Sir John Herschel. 



JAMES VEITCH & SONS, LTD., 



ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, 544, KING'S ROAD, CHELSEA, S.W. 



1900. 



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