A Treatise On the Theory And Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America ..
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It is also one of the most rapid growers among the foreign sorts, and has been found to grow remarkably well upon the barren chalk downs of England. Pinus cemhra is a very slow growing, though valuable kind, indigenous to Switzerland, and hardy here. These are the principal European species that deserve notice here for their ornamental qualities. Some splendid additions have been made to this genus, by the discovery of new species on the Himalaya mountains of Asia ; and from the great elevation... at which they are found growing wild, we have reason to hope that they will become natu- ralized m our climate. We must not leave this extensive family of trees without EVERGREEN ORNAMENTAL TREES. 255 adverting to their numerous and important uses. In the United States, full four-fifths of all the houses built are con- structed of the White and Yellovk^ Pine, chiefly of the former. Soft, easily worked, light and fine in texture, it is almost universally employed in carpentry, and for all the purposes of civil architecture ; while the tall stately trunks furnish masts and spars, not only for our own vessels, but many of those of England.
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