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in Cornwall than in any other county. But the Pinus Austriaca 

 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 Pinus Aus- 

 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 Deodara is the most graceful and vigorous : 

 the Abies Morinda promises well, and will grow in moderately 

 exposed situations : the Pinus excelsa likes shelter, yet grows 

 feebly without it, the wood is soft, like the kindred Pine, 

 the Weymouth. 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 Pinus lonpfolia, and my plants of the Pinus 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 

 Pinus 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, 



