Pinus 
excelsa 
132 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFERAD 
of this species are as remarkably pendulous as 
those of Pinus longifolia and Canariensis, but very 
different in colour. 
(May, 1861). Pinus excelsa has borne this last 
terrible winter without suffering the slightest 
injury. 
(June, 1864). The larger of the two trees in 
the arboretum bears an abundance of cones this 
year; they are sometimes single, sometimes two, 
three, and in some instances as many as four 
together, at the ends of last year’s shoots; at 
present about half grown, or less, of a purplish 
glaucous green colour, much more distinctly and 
conspicuously stalked than those of l’inus strobus 
or monticola. 
There are cones on the other trees also, but less 
numerous. Last year too, they both bore cones 
which grew to be as large as the specimens I have 
seen from India. 
(March, 1865). The beauty of the cones of 
I’inus excelsa, last autumn, was very striking, and 
was remarked by all our visitors. Their abun- 
dance, their great size and the rich glaucous purple 
colour (with a glaucous bloom on them like that 
on a plum or a purple grape) which they assumed 
in August and September, made them exceedingly 
ornamental. When quite ripe, they are pale 
brown, with some remains of the glaucous bloom 
on parts of each scale, and with a yellowish tint 
