PREFACE. 



Since the publication of my two volumes on conifers I have been 

 persuaded by various friends to continue the work, which will include 

 practically all the genus Conifers. I have described and figured 

 from authentic specimens all the known cypresses and junipers 

 which were omitted in the previous volumes. Various rare conifers 

 are included which are not found in the British Isles, as well 

 as new introductions, including Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, Pinus 

 Nelsoni, the new Chinese genus Fokienia Hodginsii, and Cupressus 

 formosensis. 1 have also figured Cunninghamia Konishii and 

 Taiwania cryptomerioides which have not yet been introduced. 

 Having sufficient illustrations for this volume, I have omitted many 

 genera, including Widdringtonia, Araucaria, Podocarpus, and the 

 Australian and New Zealand species, which I hope to describe in 

 a fourth volume. 



My thanks are due to many friends both in England and 

 abroad for the specimens illustrated, to Dr. A. Henry and Mr. 

 A. B. Jackson for their assistance, also to Dr. 0. Stapf and Dr. 

 A. B. Kendle for permission to photograph specimens at Kew and 

 the British Museum (Natural History). I am also indebted to 

 Mr. A. R. Firth, H.B.M. Consul at Tamsui, for the illustrations 

 of Formosan conifers and the frontispiece. 



H. CLINTON-BAKER. 



Bayfordbury, 1913. 



