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(Cfl/. Mem., i. p. 125.) This variety abounds in the counties of 

 Aberdeen, Moray, and Inverness, more especially in the Highland 

 districts of Abernethy and Strathspey ; and in the forests of Mar, 

 Invercauld, and Glentanner, along with the white-wooded pine, and 

 always on a light hazelly loam. The first individuals who collected 

 seeds and raised plants for sale of this variety were Messrs. A. 

 and J. Grigor, nurserymen at Elgin and Torres ; for whose exer- 

 tions the Highland Society awarded them a premium in 1830. 

 This variety appears to be that alluded to by Sir Walter Scott in 

 the Quarterly Review for October 1S28, in which he recommends 

 procuring the seeds of red pine from the Highlands of Scotland, 

 alleging that the ordinary, or white-wooded, " Scotch fir " is " an 

 inferior variety, brought from Canada not more than half a century 

 since." This Canadian variety he describes " as a mean-looking tree, 

 but very prolific of seed; on which account the nursery gardeners 

 are enabled to raise it in vast quantities." (See Gard. Mag., vol. iii. 

 p. 3.51.) Every botanist knows that the Scotch pine is not indi- 

 genous to America; and every nurseryman, that seeds of pines of 

 any kind are received from that country only in very small quan- 

 tities. It is certain, however, that the commonest description of 

 Scotch pine is much more prolific of seed than the P. s. horizon- 

 talis ; and this circumstance may have led Sir Walter Scott into 

 the above-mentioned error. We may also add that at Stratton 

 Strawles, in the neighbourhood of Norwich, there are two kinds of 

 pines in the woods of Robert Marsham, Esq., of both of which 

 that gentleman has sent us specimens. One of them is called the 

 Scotch pine, and the other the American pine ; but both are ob- 

 viously P. sylvestris : the so called American variety has longer 

 leaves and a redder bark than the other; and, when cut down, the 

 wood is found white throughout, while the heart wood of the other 

 is red. There are young plants of P. s. horizontalis in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden ; and both plants and seeds of it may be 

 obtained in large quantities from Messrs. Grigor of Elgin and 

 Forres, Mr. Lawson of Edinburgh, Mr. Charlwood of London, and 

 M. Vilmorin of Paris. There is a tree at Syon, which, in 1837, 

 was named P. rubra, and which answers to the description of Don's 

 variety. It is 25 ft. high, and was planted about 1825. The branches 

 are depressed towards the stem ; and the leaves are short, and of a 

 beautiful glaucous hue. 

 I P. s. 3 uncindta, the hookcd-coned wild Pine ; Mar Forest wild Pine, 

 Hort. Soc. Garden ; is another of Don of Forfar's varieties, which is 

 described by him, in the article before quoted, us a remarkable 

 variety, quite distinct both from P. s. vulgaris and P. s. horizon- 

 talis. Its leaves are of a still lighter colour than those of the last, 

 insomuch that they appear of a truly light glaucous hue, approach- 

 ing to a silvery tint. Its branches form, like P. s. vulgaris, a pyra- 

 midal head ; but it differs remarkably in its cones from both the 

 former varieties ; the cones in this variety having the appearance of 

 being beset with blunt prickles bent backwards. The leaves are 

 serrulated ; a character which at once distinguishes it from P. s. 

 vulgiiris, with which the tree agrees in having a pyramidal head. This 

 variety is more common than P. s. horizontalis, and it also pro- 

 duces good timber. There are young plants of this variety in the 

 Horticultural Society's (iarden, and it may be obtained, also, of 

 Mr. Lawson, Edinburgh. Fig. 2047. is a cone of the P. s. uncinata 

 of M. Vilmorin, taken from a cone received from that gentleman, 

 and which we concludeto be the same variety us,or at all events nearly 

 related to, that described l)y Don of Forfar. It will be observed that 

 this hooked cone is quite different, l)oth in its general form, and the 



