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Cypresses and Thuya, furnisli a great variety of form and colour 

 that is of the highest value to the landscape artist. 



For many other purposes of an ornamental and useful nature 

 Conifers are found to be of great value, such as the C}Tpress and 

 Yew in churchyards and cemeteries ; the Arborvitffi, Cypress, 

 Pine, Spruce, and Yew for evergreen hedges, screens, and shelter ; 

 and especially for memorial trees, for which a few of them are 

 eminently adapted. For the latter purpose, the selection of the 

 species of Conifer for a particular spot and occasion is a matter 

 which should always receive the most careful consideration, so 

 as to have an appropriate kind, and the most durable tree that 

 it is possible to select. 



In fact there is scarcely a purpose for which trees and shrubs 

 are employed in Britain for which Conifers are not of value. 

 The most conspicuous purpose for which Conifers are 'znz suitable 

 is for planting in large towns, although even in them the Cypress, 

 Yew, and that noli me tangere, the Araucaria, if once well 

 established, will flourish amid the dust and vitiated atmosphere 

 for a considerable time. Still, Conifers are not subjects to be 

 recommended for planting m such places ; nor are many of 

 them at all adapted for planting in an arid climate and parched 

 soil. 



In conclusion, allow me to impress on this influential meeting 

 the importance of giving the newer Conifers, of which we have 

 been treating, a well-balanced position in all planting operations, 

 neither overdoing the matter by planting them under all circum- 

 stances and for every purpose, nor totally neglecting them because 

 of a single failure, arising, probably, fi'om ignorance of the nature 

 of a new species or other causes, which skill and perseverance 

 can and will overcome. With a judicious use, most of the 

 hardy members of the coniferous family are valuable in the 

 British Islands. 



