TREES NATIVE AND NATURALISED 39 



of the grandest cone-bearer of the forest, for which, 

 by natural conditions, it is well fitted. 



Not many conifers were grown in early days, 

 though arbor-vita? was general enough, and both 

 the Italian stone pine and the eastern cypress were 

 planted on estates whose owners in their travels 

 had fallen in love with Italian styles of gardening. 

 The silver fir and the larch were of somewhat later 

 importation than the stone pine and the cypress. 

 The larch in Parkinson's day was " noursed vp 

 but with a few, and those onely louers of rarities." 



Many of our flowering trees were planted in the 

 gardens of the sixteenth century. To name one 

 or two, there was the Judas-tree, still far from 

 well known, the buck's-horn sumach, and the very 

 ornamental tulip-tree, which may have been intro- 

 duced a little later than the others. Like the al- 

 mond, most of these are still to be found in London 

 or its immediate neighbourhood in considerable 

 numbers, having strayed in the first instance from 

 one or other of the famous collections of those 

 far-off days. It is needless to prolong the list, 

 for few present-day gardeners perhaps care to ran- 

 sack the old-time records for such details with the 

 same keen interest and goodwill as the writer. 

 It is seemly and fitting, nevertheless, that the 

 memories of those who have been garden pioneers 

 and benefactors should be recalled by the many, 

 and not only by the few who are students, and 

 their good deeds retold once in a while. The 

 names of some of these are well known to us all, 

 and are quoted again and again, for they were 

 famous in their own day and generation, and even 



