📕 This scarce book is a handbook covering everything one needs to know about the coniferous and other important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the united states and Canada. It constitutes a compilation of articles written by several esteemed experts, the names of whom are too numerous to mention, who contributed to this work with the intention of helping to provide a comprehensive book on the horticultural evergreens based on the results of careful experience. A subject particularly suited to the substantial amateur, this text is a great introductory book on horticulture and constitutes the perfect reference book on the topic. Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist, botanist and founder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. This book was originally published in 1923 and is proudly republished now with a new introductory biography of the author.