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Excerpt from A Manual of the Coniferae: Containing a General Review of the Order; A Synopsis of the Hardy Kinds Cultivated in Great Britain; Their Place and Use in Horticulture, Etc;, Etc;; With Numerous Woodcuts and Illustrations The present Manual is founded upon a useful little book prepared many years ago by our predecessors, Messrs. Knight & Perry, of these Nurseries, but which has long since boon out of print. Ii has been compiled to supply the demand for practical information respecting Coniferae which we are constantly receiving from correspondents, and which is not contained in scientific works on the subject, or is but cursorily touched upon in them. Messrs. Knight & Perry's book contained a synopsis of all the Coniferous plants grown in Great Britain at the time of its publication, and of which they had formed a collection. We have adhered to the general plan of their work, but the progress that has been made in every department of horticulture since that period, in which the culture of Coniferous plants has, in a great measure, participated, and notably the numerous acquisitions of new species and varieties, many of which we ourselves have been instrumental in introducing, have necessitated the re-writing of the whole, not only for the purpose of embodying the most important facts since accumulated from many sources, but also for revising the descriptions of the species and varieties which were then but imperfectly known. Our endeavour has been to treat the subject in a manner as popular as possible, so as to render tho Manual acceptable to every class. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."