320 A MANUAL OF THE CONIFER*. 



PART III. 



THE VARIOUS PUEPOSES 



FOE WHICH THE 



CONIFERS ARE PLANTED 



The various purposes for which some of the most important Coni- 

 ferous trees and shrubs, described in the preceding pages, are best 

 adapted in their relation to Horticulture have been already alluded 

 to in the notes appended to the descriptions. We now proceed to 

 enumerate these purposes in a connected form with a view of giving 

 lists of the trees and shrubs suitable for each, or from which a 

 selection may be made. 



I.— THE PINETUM. 



The Pinetum, in its comprehensive sense, is a complete collection 

 of living specimens of all the Coniferous trees and shrubs known ; 

 but as such a collection is impracticable in this country owing to 

 climatal causes, the term has acquired a restricted meaning, and 

 is applied to collections, more or less complete, according to the 

 localities in which they are formed, of all the kinds that will live 

 in the open air in Great Britain. 



The object of forming a Pinetum. may be (1) for . studying the 

 Coniferse in their scientific aspect, for which end the various trees 

 and sbrubs would be best arranged according to their systematic 



