LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
SECTION V. 
EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
7 lie History and Description of all the finest Hardy Evergreen Trees. Remarks oh 
THEIR EFFECTS in LANDSCAPE GARDENING, INDIVIDUALLY AND IN COMPOSITION. 
Their Cultivation, 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. Coniferae. Lin. Syst. Monoecia, Monadelphia. 
H E 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 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 
