116 SYRIAN FEUITS. 



Persia, on his travels, my eldest son, Mr. "Wm. Burckhardt 

 Barker, who is using his best endeavours to enable me to procure 

 scions of such of the celebrated fruits of Iran as I have failed in 

 obtaining ; and who, should his father perish before they are in- 

 troduced into England, will certainly carry out such of my plans 

 as may be then incomplete. 



I am to-day packing, to be forwarded to my son-in-law, Mr. 

 Warmington, 100 small Seedling Mulberries, budded with " The 

 large White Siceet Mulberry of Ispahan" 



At the same time will be forwarded to that gentleman 500 

 specimens of " Tlie Dwarf Apple of A?-fne?iia." They are all 

 much past the age of puberty, though only 18 inches high. 

 I received them two years ago from Armenia, and they do not 

 appear to have grown at all. They increase slowly in thickness. 

 I have often seen them planted in pots and cases on the terraces 

 in the City of Aleppo, of 40 and 50 years' growth, never ex- 

 ceeding 2 feet in height, nor in the thickness of their stems that 

 of your forefinger, without their ever having been pruned. To 

 test the fact that their diminutiveness was not caused by their 

 being always kept in pots and boxes, I planted out three of full 

 15 years' growth, and after keeping them 18 years in the open 

 ground, found they had made no perceptible progress. I re- 

 marked that they bear best when their roots are cramped. They 

 are very easily propagated, as they make abundant offsets, and 

 take remarkably well from cuttings. Among the trees now sent, 

 there are 17 which were made from cuttings two years ago; and 

 10, budde(5, at the same time, with the Ribston Pippin, and 

 other sorts. 



XX. — J7ie Coniferous Plants of Italy, considered in their 

 Geographical and Historical relations. By J. F. Schouw, 

 F.M.H S., Professor of Botany in the University of Copen- 

 hagen.* 



[The great interest taken in Coniferous plants in this country 

 has suggested the translation of the following valuable paper 

 by one of the most distinguished of the Society's Foreign 

 Members.] 



I.— PINUS. 



1. P. SYLVESTRis. Linn.'\ 



This tree occurs frequently in Italy on the southern slope of the 

 Alps, from Frioul to Nice, (as, for example, in the valleys of 



* Translated from the French. 



f Including P. uncinata, D. C. ; P. rotunda, Link, ; P. Mughus, Jacq., 

 not of ScopoTi. 



