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LANDSCAPE GAEDENING. 



SECTION" V, 



EVEEGEEBN OENAMENTAl TEEES. 



The History and Description of all the finest Hardy ETergrecn Trees, Remarks on 



THEIR EFFECTS in LANDSCAPE GaBDENINO, iHDirmtJALLT AMD IN COMPOSITION. 



Their CultiraUon, etc. The Pines. The Firs. The Cedar of Lebanon, and the 

 Deodar Cedar. The Red Cedar. The Arbor Vitae. The- Holly. The Tew, etc. 



Beneath the forest's skirt I rest, 



Whose branching Pines rise darlc and high, 

 And hear the breezes of the West 



Among the threaded foliage sigh. 



BrYA£T. 



The Pine Tebe. Finns. 

 Nat. Ord. Coniferae. Lin. Syet. Monoecia, Monodelphia. 



SHE Pines compose by far the most 

 important genus of evergreen trees. 

 In either continent they form the 

 densest and most extensive forests 

 known, and their Avood 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 



