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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL nORTlCULTURAL SOCIETY. 



a useful little book which all Conifer lovers and growers should 

 possess. 



Large-geowing Conifebs for Parks. 



Taxodium distichum 

 Taxus baccata 

 Ginkgo biloba 

 Pinus contorta 

 Pinaster 

 silvestris 

 Laricio 

 austriaca 

 Coulterii 



Sabiniana, the Digger Pine. At 

 Kew this is perfectly hardy and 

 forms, with judicious i^runing, a 

 fine tree ; the very large seeds were 

 formerly much used as food by the 

 Californian Indians. 

 Pinus ponderosa, the Yellow Pine 

 rigida 

 Cembra 

 excelsa 

 Pence 



Strobus, the Weymouth Pine 

 monticola 

 Qedrus Libani 



Cedrus atlantica 

 Larix leptolepis 



,, europffia 



,, americana 

 Picea nigra 



,, alba, the White Spruce 



,, pungens and p, glauca 

 excelsa and tall forms 



,, polita 



,, orientalis 



,, ajanensis 



,, sitchensis 

 Tsuga Mertensiana 



,, canadensis 

 Abies Nordmanniana 

 numidica 



,, Pinsapo 



,, brachyphylla 



„ nobilis 



„ concolor 

 Thuya gigantea 



,, occidentalis 

 Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana 



Smaller-growing Conifers as Single Specimens for 

 Lawns, &c. 



Only a limited selection is here given ; no attempt is made to 

 give an exhaustive list. Where the aim of the planter is not to 

 bring together within his limits all the species and varieties 

 possible, he could probably not do better than choose from the 

 names given below : — 



Thuya occidentalis Wareana 

 ,, ,, Vervaeneana 



,, plicata 

 Chamfficyparis Lawsoniana 

 ,, pisifera 



nutkaensis 

 ,, obtusa 



sphan'oidea 

 Thuyopsis dolabrata 

 Biota orientalis 



Juniperus chinensis and var, aiirea 

 „ virginiana and vars. 



arizonica 

 ,, Oxycedrus 



Cryptomeria japonica 



Yews 



Cophalotaxus 



Sciadopitys. This likes plenty of 

 moisture and does well in peat. 



Pinus Banksiana, the Scrub or Gray 

 Pine ; a low shrub or tree rarely 

 exceeding 20 feet in height. 



Pinus Pinea 



,, tuberculata. A handsome Pine, 

 remarkable for the crowded whorls 

 of cones which, in a wild state, 

 persist on the stems and branches 

 from bottom to top until the de- 

 struction of the tree by lire, when 

 the cone-scales open with a loud 

 report, setting free the transparent- 

 winged seeds, to be carried away 

 by the wind and, perhaps, reforest 

 the region. 



