Excerpt from Pinaceae Being a Handbook of the Firs and Pines Arboriculture has many wants. One of these is a Handbook of the Firs and Pines, giving their distinctive characteristics, and the best modes of growing them 5 with brief practical notes on their hardiness, and on the soils and situations most suitable for them 5 showing such kinds as are of economic value for their timber, and such as are useful for ornamental planting in the climate of Great Britain and Ireland also, a natural and common-sense classification and nomenclature of them, with an alphabetical list or index of the names of all the genera, species, quasi-species, varieties, and sub-varieties, and all the synonyms or aliases by which they are at present known5 comprising a brief and practical summary of all that is desirable or necessary for the British Arboriculturist to know concerning the Firs and Pines of the world to the present date 5 and all this in a portable form, and at a reasonable price. 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.