216 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



SECTION V. 



EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



The History and Description of all the finest Hardy Evergreen Trees. Remarks on their 



EFFECTS IN LANDSCAPE GaRDENINO, INDIVIDUALLY AND IN COMPOSITION. Their CultlVft- 



tion, etc. The Pines. The Firs. The Cedar of Lebanon. The Red Cedar. The Arbor 

 Vitae. The Holly. The Yew, etc. 



Beneath the forest's skirt I rest, 



Whose branching Pines rise dark and high, 



And hear the breezes of the West 

 Among the threaded fohage sigh. 



Bryant. 



The Pine Tree. Pinus. 



Nat. Ord. Coniferee. Lin. Syst. Moncecia, Monadelphia. 



H E Pines compose by far the most im- 

 portant genus of evergreen trees. In 

 either continent they form the densest 

 and most extensive forests known, and 

 their wood in civil and naval architecture, and for various 

 other purposes, is more generally used than any other. In 

 the United States and the Canadas, there are ten species ; in 

 the territory west of the Mississippi to the Pacific, including 

 Mexico, there are fourteen ; in Europe, fourteen ; in Asia, 

 eight, and in Africa, two species. All the colder parts of the 

 old world — the mountains of Switzerland and the Alps, the 

 shores of the Baltic, vast tracts in Norway, Sweden, Germa- 



