XX 



PEEFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



THE first edition (1896) of the Hand-list of Coniferae 

 grown in the Kew Arboretum has been for some time 

 exhausted. 



It is now republished after having been carefully 

 revised and enlarged by the addition of the names of 

 numerous species and varieties which have been added to 

 the collection since the first edition was prepared. For 

 the revision I am indebted to Dr. Masters, F.R.S. 



The number of Coniferous plants now enumerated 

 includes 246 species and 451 varieties, or some 700 "sorts" 

 in all. 



In the first edition it was stated (p. 16) that Ginkgo 

 bildba " is apparently nowhere known in the wild state." 

 Several fine specimens have since been found by 

 Mrs. Bishop in the magnificent forests which surround 

 the sources of the Great Gold river and the smaller Min, 

 in Western China, and also in the forests of Central 

 Yesso, Japan. (Journ. Linn. Soe. BoL, xxvi. 547.) 



The following measurements of exceptional specimens 

 have been made by Mr. W. J. Bean, the Assistant Curator. 

 Those marked with a f exceed the dimensions recorded 

 in the report of the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 Conifer Conference in 1892 : — 



f Abies brachyphyUa ; in collection, 39 feet high : 

 2 feet girth. 



