. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. one of four differentmethods—seed-sowing, grafting, layering, or theinsertion of cuttings. Seed-sowing is to be recom-mended, but when seed is difficult to obtain, as isnot unfrequently the case with many conifers, pro-pagation from cuttings, by layers or grafting, isusually resorted to. Unless in the case of ournative conifers—the Scotch Pine, the Yew, andthe Juniper—self-sown specimens have rarely
. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. one of four differentmethods—seed-sowing, grafting, layering, or theinsertion of cuttings. Seed-sowing is to be recom-mended, but when seed is difficult to obtain, as isnot unfrequently the case with many conifers, pro-pagation from cuttings, by layers or grafting, isusually resorted to. Unless in the case of ournative conifers—the Scotch Pine, the Yew, andthe Juniper—self-sown specimens have rarely beendetected. There are, however, several exceptionsto this rule that have at various times come undermy notice. At Woburn Abbey both the Wey-mouth and Bhotan Pines {Pinus Strobus and ) have reproduced their kind freely, particu-larly the former, which in one of the pine woodshas grown so plentifully from seed that advantagehas been taken of these young plants to utilisethem as forest trees. At Holwood Park, in Kent, the property ofthe Earl of Derby, some of the most promisingyoung specimens of Lebanon Cedar are such as were lifted from beneath one of the old trees, said 204. PROPAGATING CONIFERS 205 to have been planted by the great statesman,William Pitt, when he owned the property. Butat many other places, as well as Holwood, theLebanon Cedar has reproduced itself from naturallysown seed. I have only noticed one instance of any of thespecies of Abies other than A. pectinata growingnaturally from seed, and that was in the case ofA. Nordmanniana at Penrhyn Castle, in tree had produced an unusual quantity ofcones, containing good, fertile seeds ; many of thesegerminated freely on the ground where shed, andwere carefully lifted and taken to the home nursery,where they grew into fine specimens. In a gravellywoodland where the Cluster Pine [P. Pinaster) wasthe main crop, I have seen several self-so\\Ti treesspring up, but these, curiously enough, were alwa
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