CHAPTER XVI. 
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INDIVIDUAL CONIFEROUS TREES, 
The family of the Coniferee includes thirty or forty 
genera, and a great number of species. Many of 
them are wholly unsuited to the climate of the 
northern part of the United States, and a still larger 
proportion are fit only for amateur culture. The 
Conifers of the States on the Pacific coast comprise 
some of the most magnificent productions of the 
vegetable creation. Very few of them, however, can 
be successfully cultivated in corresponding latitudes 
east of the Rocky Mountains, and all are as yet too 
scarce and too expensive to admit of any but very 
limited culture. In the present work, the descrip- 
tions will be confined, principally, to well known 
native species, with some of foreign origin. Those 
who may desire a more extended account of this class 
of trees are referred to Hoopes’ Book of Evergreens, 
the most complete treatise on the subject hitherto 
published in this country. 
