CHAPTER V. 
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EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
AVING in the chapter on the Characteristics of Trees, 
pages 294 and 295, treated of the relative value of 
evergreen and deciduous trees for home embellishment, 
the reader is referred to those observations as embodying 
a comparison of the beauties and advantages of the two classes. 
In the descriptions which follow, it has been the aim to group 
families of evergreens under popular names that will give the best 
suggestion of the general characteristics of the group, and under 
one popular name, sometimes to class several distinct but allied 
genera, giving at the same time the several botanical names which 
are thus, for the convenience of readers little versed in such mat- 
ters, grouped together : and following the botanical nomenclature 
and arrangement, as far as any is attempted, of George Gordon, 
A. L. S., of England, as given in his work on the ConifercE^ en- 
titled “The Pinetum.” 
