LAMBERT’S DESCRIPTION OF THE GENUS PINUS. 
Foliis ternis, tenuissimis longissimis, 
pendulis ; stipulis integerrimis, deciduis ; 
antherarum crista convexa integriuscula. 
A native of the mountain of Napaul 
in the East Indies, where it grows to 
the height of more than a hundred feet. 
Described from a manuscript communi- 
cation by Dr. Roxburgh. 
16. Pinus strobus ; Weymouth pine. 
Foliis quinis; strobilis folio longiori- 
bus, cylindraceis, levigatis ; antherarum 
crista gemina, subulata minima. 
» First cultivated in England by Lord 
Weymouth, whence its English name is 
derived, It abounds most in New York, 
New England, Nova Scotia, and Canada, 
where it grows to the height of two 
hundred feet on the best ground in the 
vallies, in the crevices of the mountains, 
and on the banks of rivers, to which the 
rains and melted snows carry down the 
fattest parts of the soil of the highest 
lands. The bark in old trees is abun- 
dantly impregnated with a whitish resin, 
which has a very agreeable odour. ‘The 
wood is of a yellowish white coldur of a 
tolerable hardness, very fine, almost re- 
gembling the white cedar, and works 
straight, smooth, and shining. 
17. Pinus cembra; Siberian stone 
pine. 
Foliis quinis: strobilis ovatis: semi- 
num alis obliteratis, antherarum crista 
reniforme crenata. 
It flourishes most on the mountains of 
Switzerland and Siberia; is one of the 
hardiest of the genus, and of the slowest 
growth, seldom attaining the height of 
three feet in less than 14 years. Its 
timber is large, and has a finer grain 
than common deal, with a remarkably 
pleasant smell. ‘The flowers have a 
more beantiful appearance than those of 
any other species, being of a bright pur- 
ple colour ; as are also the unripe, full 
grown cones, which have 2 hloom upon 
them resembling that of a ripe Orleans 
plumb. The kernels of the nuts, when 
stripped of a brownish riad, haye the 
whiteness and softness of a blanched al- 
mond: they have an agreeable oily taste, 
and often form part of a Swiss as well as 
Siberian dessert; but Dr. Maton says, 
that when exposed to the air they sooner 
become rancid than those of the pinus 
pinea. From the shoots of the pinus 
cembra, bruised and macerated a month 
in water, is extracted an essential oil, 
called by the German writers Carpathian 
balsam, pellucid, verylia uid, and of a 
whitish colour, having an odour and 
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taste like oil of juniper, and celebrated 
by them for its great medicinal virtues 
in disorders of very opposite characters. 
The pinus cembra is at present very 
scarce in the nursery gardens about Lon- 
don, and bears a high price, Flourish« 
ing plantations of it are to be seen on 
Lord Clive’s Estate in Shropshire ; and 
in the grounds of Colonel Dixon, of 
Gledhow, near Leeds, in Yorkshire, by 
whose father, the late Jeremiah Dixon, 
Esq. it was propagated from cones pro- 
cured in Switzerland. Several trees, 
‘two seventy years old, and others about 
fifty, are also growing at Mill Hill, in 
Middlesex, the seat of the late Peter 
Collinson, Esq. and now by a scientific . 
kind of descent, in the possession of 
that very intelligent and indefatigable 
botanist, Richard Anthony Salisbuiy, 
Esq. 
18. 
pine. 
Foliis quinis longissimis, margine scae 
bris : strobilis oblongis: squamis apice 
truncatis. 
Dr. Swartz seems only to have seen 
trees of this kind without male flowers 
or fruit, and could procure only abranch 
with leaves, and a cone much mutilated. 
No figure is given. 
19. Pinus abies ; Norway spruce fir. 
Foliis solitariis tetragonts 5 strobilis 
cylindraceis ; squamis rhombeis, compla- 
natis, margine repandis erosis, 
Its wood is called white deal in Eng- 
land ; is firm, straight, and regular in 
the grain ; and is capable of resisting 
moisture for a long time. That which 
is grown in England is said to be more 
durable than that which is imported, 
and is particularly in demand for mak- 
ing ladders. On account of the fineness 
of its grain, and of its whiter colour, it 
is much used for cottage tables and other 
furniture ; but in the North of England, 
at least, it was esteemed less durable 
than the red deal, and bears an interior 
price. We who sometimes rise early in 
a winter morning and light our own fire. 
when the rest of our household are in 
bed, know by experience that its chips 
are much inferior to those of red deal.. 
The common frankincense of the 
shops is probably no other, or at least is 
adulterated with, the resineus juice of 
this tree, which spontaneously exudes 
from its pores, and soon concretes into 
distinct drops, or tears. The genuine. 
Burgundy pitch is prepared from this re» 
sinous juice. 
3L3 
Pinus occidentalis ; West Indian 
