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BULLETIN 
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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. yw [1918 
tt I.—PINUS CANARIENSIS. 
J. Hurcninson. 
(With Plates.) 
_ in the Bulletin de la Société nationale d’Acclimatation de 
France for August, 1917, Dr. G. V. Perez, the veteran botanist 
way sleepers, mining and all kinds of construction, its durability 
when exposed to inclement conditions being p enomenal. As 
museum at Kew), 
Pinus canariensis, 
years old. The weight of a cubic foot of the heart wood is given 
as 68 Ibs. 3 oz. (Kew Bull. 1915, 266). These wine presses are 
made of large massive beams which could only have been procured 
Some of these 
of the trees in the islands at the present time. Above the village 
of Vilaflor, to the south of the Peak of Tenerife, there still exists 
p 400 tt. One of 
these, according to Dr. Perez, is about 160 ft. high, and 36 ft. 
“1 cjreumference! The trees of the forests now clothing the 
* of, Cape of Good: Hope. Reports on Forests. 
_ +The species apparently grows well in Cyprus and may be found a 
suitable tree for planting in the Island. 
(5172.) Wt. 152—699. 1,125. 2/18. J.T. &S., Ltd. G. 14. Sch. 12. 
