TREES AND SHRUBS FOR GARDEN AND PARK. 



Conifers. LIBOCEDRUS DECURRENS, the " Incense Cedar," is a stately columnar tree which shows 

 to advantage if planted in a group. There are several varieties of this type. 



PICEA (Spruce Fir). This is a genus of lofty trees which are very ornamental in 

 the park or woodland, but should not be planted on low ground in combination 

 with other trees. The type is P. excelsa, the " Common Spruce," which has a 

 large number of different varieties. Other interesting species are P. alba, the 

 " White Spruce ; " P. Alcockiana, P. Engelmanni, P. Maximowiczii, P. Morinda, P. nigra 

 the " Black Spruce," P. Omorika, the " Servian Spruce ; " P. orientalis, P. polita and 

 P. pungens ; also the variety P. p. glauca, the " Blue Spruce." 



PINUS, of which the varieties are legion, includes some of the best known conifers, but 

 the genus also contains a large number of species which are only interesting to lovers 

 of the curious. The commonest and probably the most useful is P. sylvestris, the 

 Scotch fir which is one of the few pines which associate well with English landscape 

 scenery. The following are distinct: P. Bungeana, the "Lace Bark Pine;" 

 P. inops, the " Scrub Pine ; " P. Laricio, the " Corsican Pine ; " P. montana ; P. Pinaster, 

 the " Cluster Pine ; " P. Pinea, the " Stone 

 Pine ; " P. excelsa, the " Bhotan Pine," and 

 P. Strobus, the " Weymouth Pine." Pines 

 invariably look best when planted together 

 in considerable numbers. 



PSEUDOLARIX K.EMPFERI, the " Golden Larch," 

 is a beautiful tree, and should be more 

 largely planted for effect, wherever there 

 is a background of large trees or hills. 



PSEUDOTSUGA DouGLAsii, the " Douglas Fir," 

 is a handsome tree of very rapid growth, 

 and valuable as timber. It will not how- 

 ever stand strong winds. 



RETINOSPORA. See Cupressus. 



SCIADOPITYS VERTICILLATA, the ' Umbrella 

 Pine," is a somewhat rare and unique 

 evergreen tree of slow growth, quite distinct 

 from any other Pine, and one which should 

 be included in every collection. 



SEQUOIA GIGANTEA, " Wellingtonia," Mammoth 



Tree, and S. sempervirens, the " Redwood," FIG - 360. CYTISUS ALBA. 



grow to very large trees, but the positions they are to occupy ought to be chosen 



with great discretion, as they need plenty of space to grow in. 



TAXODIUM DISTICHUM, the " Deciduous Cypress," grows well in swamps or near the 

 margin of a stream or lake. It is a very interesting tree. 



TAXUS (Yew). T. baccata, the " Common Yew," is of all evergreens at once the most 

 English and the most beautiful in character ; serviceable alike for almost every 

 purpose for which trees are required when planted as an avenue, as a single tree 

 on a lawn. It may be seen at hundreds of places ; as a screen tree, as a clipped 

 tree in the formal garden, or as a hedge, for which purpose it is better than any 

 other plant. Other useful varieties are T. b. adpressa, T. b. adpressa aurea, one of 

 the most effective forms which is often grafted on T. b. fastigiata, the " Irish 

 Yew " the result being a mushroom or pyramidal head, as shown in illustration 

 No. 341. Although often decried by writers on gardens, there is no tree of 

 natural shape which is so useful to the garden designer as the Irish Yew and 

 its golden variety, T. b. fastigiata aurea. As a line of Yews, or for marking 



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