PREFACE 



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The following notes on Coniferous Trees, which have 

 been compiled as opportunity offered during the past 

 twenty-two years, are taken in the main from speci- 

 mens cultivated at Penrhyn Castle, Woburn Abbey, 

 and other places of which the writer has been in 

 charge. To the owners of several well-known Pineta 

 and nurseries throughout the country and on the 

 Continent, I am indebted for specimens and informa- 

 tion regarding some of the rarer species and varieties. 



Numerous articles, monographs, and essays on 

 Hardy Conifers have, at various times, been contri- 

 buted by the author to The Garden, The Gardeners 

 Chronicle, and " Transactions of the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society," and from which Professor 

 Hansen in " The Pinetum Danicum," Nisbet in the 

 last edition of ** Brown's Forester," Ravenscroft in 

 " The Pinetum Britannicum," and other writers, have 

 done me the honour of quoting. Condensed notes 

 from some of these papers are included in the present 

 work. 



As regards general nomenclature, I have followed 

 the now almost universally adopted plan of Bentham 



