Pinus 
longlfolia 
Pinus 
cembra 
128 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFER. 
‘attaining a greater elevation than seven thousand 
‘‘feet. This tree appears to have a very great 
‘‘ power of enduring varieties of climate, for it seems . 
‘equally at home in the hot damp valleys of 
‘Sikkim, surrounded by an entirely tropical 
‘vegetation; and on the dry stony hills of the 
‘‘ Punjaub, where rain hardly ever falls, and it 1s 
‘‘at all seasons exposed to a powerful and_ scorch- 
Sih 
My brother Henry, who saw the Pinus longifolia 
in the Western Himalaya, describes it, in a letter 
to me, January 18th, 1850, as ‘‘a beautiful tree 
‘where it has room, with a very large and straight 
‘reddish coloured stem (like the real Scotch Fir) 
‘and then a great flat spreading head.” 
The wood (of which I have a specimen from 
India) is pale coloured, soft, light, and of loose 
texture, and is not much valued in the country*. 
PINUS CEMBRA. 
Loudon, p. 2274. 
Two planted by my father in 1825:—one of 
them in the arboretum, did not grow well, and 
was taken down several years ago; the other 
in the shrubbery on the east side of the lawn, 
is now (1874), healthy and thriving, and a hand- 
some tree, though too much cramped in its growth 
by neighbouring trees. It has borne cones for 
* (1880.) All our plants of Pinus longifolia are now dead. 
