ARBORETUM NOTES, 133 
CONTE RRA, 
ere and there (as in Lambert’s plate) from Pinus 
: : : < excelsa. 
the overflowing resin. They abound with resin, 
which has a most agreeable fragrance. 
(December, 1871.) Both the trees of Pinus 
excelsa, above mentioned, have continued to bear 
cones abundantly every year; and many thriving 
young plants have been raised from the seeds. 
PINUS MONTICOLA. 
Loudon, vo A, 2201. 
The tree in the arboretum at Barton, planted Be ac 
in 1848, is very flourishing, and grows with 
very great rapidity; it is now (1864) absolutely 
loaded with cones. Itis probably (as Sir W. 
Hooker, Flora Boreali Americana, considers it), 
merely a variety of strobus ; differing in the larger 
size of the cones, in their colour (which is a 
purplish brown at the same stage of growth when 
those of the other are light green), and in the more 
rigid, more erect, and more crowded leaves, which 
are, to a certain degree, intermediate in character 
between those of strobus and of cembra. The cones 
when full grown, are nearly as long as those of 
excelsa but not as thick; they abound with resin. 
