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in Cornwall than in any other county. But the Finns Ausfriaca 
is in many respects superior. The Pinaster, indeed, grows more 
rapidly, presents a fuller mass of foliage to our prevailing 
winds, and consequently is an excellent nurse in an exposed 
situation; but it is more difficult to rear than the Finns Jus- 
triaca, and suffers much in the nursery in a very dry, or 
very wet season. An unfavourable season has sometimes killed 
from one third to half of my young Pinasters ; whilst at the 
same time, and in the same nursery, I have not lost more than 
five per cent, of my Austriacas. The Pinaster is also less firmly 
rooted, and generally requires to be banked up after a storm for 
the first three years. The wood of the Pinaster is brittle, and 
subject to the worm: the Austriaca, as far as I can judge from 
cutting down small trees, appears tough, and is said to be 
durable, and, from the comparative straightness of its stem, is 
much better calculated for planking. It does not thrive like 
the Pinaster in a dry stony soil, but it promises to bear expo¬ 
sure to the sea air equally well. The largest of my Austriacas, 
planted probably in 1839, is eleven feet high and two inches 
and an eighth in diameter, three feet above the ground. A few 
are beginning to produce cones which are about the size of those 
of the Scotch Fir; still this Pine does not bear cones either 
so early or so freely as the Pinaster. A shelter having been 
formed by the Pinaster and the Austriaca, other and less 
hardy pines may be planted, even in exposed situations; the 
Scotch Fir, the Larch, the Spruce, and the Silver ; though the 
latter endures exposure better than the other Pines. I have 
mentioned that the Pines of India succeed in Cornwall: of 
these the Cedrus Beodara is the most graceful and vigorous : 
the Abies Morinda promises well, and will grow in moderately 
exposed situations; the Finns ecccelsa likes shelter, yet grows 
feebly without it, the wood is soft, like the kindred Pine, 
the Weynimth. The Picea Webbiana is a very slowly growing 
Pine, though highly ornamental, where, as at Dropmore, it 
exhibits its purple cones. I have not yet succeeded in raising 
the Pmus lonyifolia, and my plants of the Finns Gerardiana are 
hardly sufficiently advanced to exhibit their character. There is 
one Pine, the produce of California, which stands our climate, 
and promises to be a great ornament to our plantations,—the 
Finns insignis : it has a rich full foliage of various shades of 
green, grows as freely as the Pinaster, and, like that Pine, 
requires to be occasionally banked up if planted in an exposed 
situation. I have not yet tried it in situations fully exposed to 
the winds; but it has all the appearance of being very hardy. 
