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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111. 



Pinussi/lvestris m France. Near Paris, at Verridres, £0 years planted, it is 32 ft. high; and a 

 pyramidal variety, of the same age, is 18 ft. high. In Brittany, at Barres, 12 years planted, it is U ft 

 high. At Colonibey, near Metz, 70 years planted, it is 99 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. 6 in. In 

 the Botanic Garden at Avranches, 40 years planted, it is 40 ft. high. In the Park of Clervaux, near 

 Chat Meraut, 33 years planted, it is 69 ft. high. 



P'tnus si/lveslri's in other Countries. In Bavaria, in the Botanic Garden at Munich, 24 years planted, 

 l' '!"*"■ '"S*^- '" Austria, near Vienna, at Briick on the Leytha, fiO years planted, it is 90 ft. 

 high. In Sweden, in the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 54 ft. high. In Russia, near .St. Petersburgh, 

 on the small island of Soinovy Kosha, it is 77 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft, and of the head 

 16 ft In Italy, at Monza, 65 years planted, it is CO ft. high. 



Commercial Statistics. In the London nurseries, one year's seedling plants 

 of the common variety are \s. 6d. a thousand ; two years' seedlings, 3s. 6d. 

 a thousand ; plants one year transplanted, IOj. a thousand; and two years 

 transplanted, 20s. a thousand. At BoUwyller, single plants transplanted are 

 3 cents each ; and at New York, 50 cents. Plants of the Highland red pine 

 are, in London, \s. 9d. a thousand ; and at Grigor's Nursery, Forres, N. B., 

 1*. 6^/. a thousand; and of the [ in de Hagueneau, at Bollwyller, 8 cents each. 

 Seeds of the common Scotch pine are, in London, 2*. per lb ; of the High- 

 land pine, 2s. 6d. per lb.; and seeds of the pin de Hagueneau, at Bollwyller, 

 are 1 franc 50 cents per lb. 



* 1 2. P. (s.) pumi'lio Hanke. The dwarf, or Mountain, Pine. 



Identification. Hsnke Beob., 68. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 495. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t 2. ; Cam. Hort., 



127. ; Clus. Pan., 15. ; Hall. Helv., No. 1668. y ; Ait Hort Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 314. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 



1836 ; Baum. Cat, ed. 1835. 

 Synonymcs. P. sylv^stris montina y Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 366. ; P. s. hilmilis y Neat. Cat. 



Hort. Btackb., 50. ; P. Cunis ercctis Tourn. Inst. 586., Schettchx. It., 460., Du Ham. Arb., 2. p. 126.; 



P. hUmilis, &c., Tourn. Inst., 586; P. sued^tieus seu carpaticus Ungarisch Mag., 3terbande, 38. ; 



Pinaster c6nis erectis Bau/i. Pin., 492. ; P. tatirica Mill, in Herb. Banks. ; P. p. montanus Park., 



1537. f. 8. ; P. quartus austrlacus Clus. Hist., 1. p. ,'32. ; Pin nain, Fr. ; Krumholz, Gcr 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 2. ; our fig. 2061., to our usual scale, and^gjf. 2057. and 2058., 



of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Branches generally recumbent. Leaves short, stiff, some- 

 what twisted ; thickly distributed over the branches, with long, lacerated, 

 woolly, white sheaths. Cones, 

 when young, erect ; when ma- 

 ture, pointing outwards. Buds 

 {fig. 2057.) ovate, blunt, resi- 

 nous. Leaves {fig. 2058.) from 

 2 in. to 2Ain. long; sheaths, 

 at first, from ^in. to 1^ in. long, 

 white and lacerated ; afterwards 

 falling off or shrinking to j^ in. 

 g™ or A in. long, and becoming 

 dark brown or black. Cones 

 {d) from H in. to 2 in. long, and 

 from 3. in. to 1 in. broad ; reddish or || 

 dark |)urpiish brown when young, and 

 of a dull brown when mature. Scales 

 (i) and seeds («) resembling those 

 of P. sylvestris, hut smaller. Cotyledons 5 to 7. A large spreading 

 bush, or lov/ tree; a native of Europe, on mountains. Introduced in 

 1779; flowering and ripening its cones at the same time as the Scotch 

 pine. Fig. 20G.'i. in [). 21*J0. is a portrait of a bush at Dropmore, which, 

 m 1837, was 12 ft. high and 25 ft. in diameter. 

 Varieties. 



• i P. (s.) p. 2 ruhrcrfiora has red flowers, but does not differ in any other 

 res[)ect from P. (s.) pumiiio. There is a bu.sh of it at Dropmore 

 above 12 ft. iiigh, and covering a sjjace 21 ft. in diameter. 

 •J P. (*.)/;, 3 Fisv/ier'x lioolli, Lodd. Cat., cd. W.iiS, Lawsons Man., 

 p. .333. — Only small grafted |)lantsof this variety are in the country, 

 it not having been introduced till about 1832. In the shoots and 

 foliage, it bears so strong a resemblance to /"*. (s.) pumflio, that we 

 doubt very mucii if it even merits to be considered as a variety of 



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