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many good specimen trees and at Kuitpo, also in South Australia, I saw 

 a fine plantation of this Pine set out by the Forestry Department. AtBalla- 

 rat in Victoria it is particularly flourishing and in the park there are speci- 

 mens over 75 feet tall. At Macedon it thrives well and so it does in Hobart 

 and Launceston in Tasmania. At Sydney it is not nearly so happy and 

 its seedlings damp off badly. The summer rainfall is evidently not to its 

 liking any more than it is to the Stone Pine (P. Pinea L.). Further inland 

 it is all right. A.t Orange there are good trees and on a street in Goulburn 

 I saw a specimen over 80 feet tall and perfectly symmetrical. In South 



Africa it does well at the Cape with its winter rainfall and eastward as 

 far as the rainfall is distributed throughout the year but in Natal, Zululand 

 and elsewhere with summer rainfall prevailing it is not a success. In 

 New Zealand it gives little promise and indeed much of the country is too 

 cold for it yet near Nelson I saw a few good specimens. In parts of South 

 Africa and Australasia other than those where the rainfall is a summer one 

 the Canary Island Pine is without doubt the most valuable exotic tree of 

 its class that can be grown. Its growth is slower than that of Insignis Pine 

 but in South Africa it is faster than that of Cluster Pine. The wood is of 

 very superior quality with a fine grain, works well and is valuable for 

 building and general constructional purposes. I have seen no old trees nor 

 trees taller than 90 feet. These had symmetrical crowns. The leafage is 

 dense, rather gray-green, the leaves long, relatively stout and three in a 

 fascicle. The seedling plants are very glaucous and on the older trees and 

 especially at or near the base of the trunk adventitious branchlets, glaucous 

 in color are usually to be found and are a ready means of distinguishing 

 this species from its near relative P. longifolia Roxb. 



The Canary Island Pine is not only one of the most useful of its genus 

 but also one of the most ornamental and South Africa and Australia 

 should be considered fortunate in having a climate suitable for the success- 

 ful growth of this fine species. Where summer rainfall prevails in South 

 Africa the northwest Himalayan Pinus longifolia Roxb., the Chir Pine, is 

 a success. At Grahamstown there is a fine plantation of this Pine and 

 there are good specimens in the Botanic Gardens in Maritzburg. It 



promises to be a success in parts of the Transvaal and inland, on the hills 

 in Natal and in the Transkei, will probably thrive. In Australia I saw very 

 little of this Pine though it is the only species which really flourishes at 

 Brisbane. It was interesting to find good specimens in the Botanic Garden , 

 Hobart, where among others there is a handsome specimen 75 feet tall 

 and 7 feet in girth of trunk. In Hobart 's interesting but unfortunately 

 neglected garden there is a particularly fine collection of Conifers including 

 many rare species of Pinus (see Wilson in Jour. Am. Arb. III. 51-55 

 [1921]) not usually found in cultivation and many of the trees are hand- 

 some specimens superior to the others I saw in the antipodes. In New 



Zealand except in the north the climate is too cold for the Chir Pine. In 

 parts of southern Queensland not too far from the sea this Pine will 



