28 PINES 



generally been regarded as exhibiting an hostility 

 to English shores ; however, there is one graduating 

 at Cambridge under the helpful tuition of Mr. R. 

 Irwin Lynch, in the Botanical Gardens, with every 

 prospect of obtaining a fair degree of success. Rather, 

 I think, on the strength of this change of attitude, 

 in an amiable direction, towards an English climate 

 on the part of this Pine, it has been distributed for a 

 few trial trips in various places among enthusiasts 

 on the subject of encouraging rarities. As far as 

 our experience goes here (Radnorshire), they seem to 

 be holding their own at an altitude of 800 ft. above 

 sea-level, but only so far in the earlier stages of life. 

 Its chief peculiarity, that of shedding its leaf sheath 

 in the second year, has been alluded to. The leaf 

 sheath shows an imbricated arrangement, the scales 

 growing like the stem-clinging leaves of a Cypress 

 with a spreading point, which is a departure from 

 the ordinary custom of Pine trees. 



It has been said that once some confusion reigned 

 between it and another Pine called P. Longifolia, a 

 confusion which only did, and only could, arise from 

 a wrong label. The latter tree has, how^ever, been 

 relegated in authoritative writings to the position 

 of an alien in our midst, and it is only to be found 

 interned in hotter places, such as the Temperate House 

 at Kew. Were it to come into evidence, the cone 

 structure would solve the problem of identity, to say 

 nothing of other differences. Some obtained by me 

 of the P. Longifolia from Naples are 5 J in. long and 

 2i in. diameter, while the cones of the Gerardiana 

 obtained from India measure 6J in. long and 4^ in. 

 in diameter, a very substantial difference. 



It was discovered by Captain Gerard in the N.-W. 

 Himalayas, and was known as an eatable-seeded Pine 

 of the East Indies, that went by the name of P. Neoza. 



