EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
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SECTION Y. 
EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
The History and Description of all the finest Hardy Evergreen Trees. Remarks on their 
effects in Landscape Gardening, Individually and in Composition. Their Culti- 
vation, etc. The Pines. The Firs. The Cedar of Lebanon, and the Deodar Cedar. The 
Red Cedar. The Arbor Vitae. The Holly. The Yew, etc. 
Beneath the forest’s skirt I rest, 
Whose branching Pines rise dark and high, 
And hear the breezes of the West 
Among the threaded foliage sigh. 
Bryant. 
The Pine Tree. Pinus. 
Nat. Ord. Conifer®. Lin. Syst. Moncecia, Monadelphia, 
H E Pines compose by far the most im= 
portant genus of evergreen trees. In 
either continent they form the densest 
and most extensive forests known, and 
their wood 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 — the mountains of Switzerland and the Alps, the 
shores of the Baltic, vast tracts in Norway, Sweden, Ger- 
