. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book III. RESINOUS OR CONIFEROUS TREES. 983. Sect. I. Resinous or Coniferous Trees. 7039. The resinous forest trees are comprised in three genera belonging to the natural order of Coniferecz, J ; viz. Firms and Cupressus, Moncec. Monad. L., and Juniperus
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book III. RESINOUS OR CONIFEROUS TREES. 983. Sect. I. Resinous or Coniferous Trees. 7039. The resinous forest trees are comprised in three genera belonging to the natural order of Coniferecz, J ; viz. Firms and Cupressus, Moncec. Monad. L., and Juniperus, Dicec. Monad. L. The trees which are valuable as timber are comprehended under the genus Pinus, which comprises the three subdivisions of pines, larches, and firs. The first is distinguished by fasciculated leaves in different sheaths, but proceeding from the same sheathing base ; the second by fasciculated leaves from solitary sheaths; and the third by solitary leaves. The branches of the whole genus are frondose or spreading, and caducous : those of the pine tribe spread the least; those of the larch tribe rather droop; and those of the firs are thin and much spread, and are peculiarly frondlike. 7040. The wild or Scotch pine, erroneously de- nominated Scots fir, is the Pinus sylvestris, L. {Lam. pin, 1. t. 1 .) Pin, Fr. ; Keifer or Fohre, Ger.; and Pino, Ital. (Jig. 669. a) It is an evergreen sub-conical tree; the foliage inclining to dark-blue or grey; shorter and broader than those of the stone pine (b) ; it is common in most parts of Europe, particularly the northern coun- tries, and is the only species of the genus indigenous to Britain, being a native of Scotland, and natu- ralised in England and Wales. Under favorable circumstances it attains the height of seventy or eighty feet: it flowers in May, and the cones are fit to gather in December. The finest pine-woods in Britain are at fnver- cauld, in Invernesshire, and Gordon Castle, in Aberdeenshire. 7041. Use. The t
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