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rich colour, those from a home-grown tree being 

 each 8 inches long by fully 5 inches diameter at 

 widest part, and weighing about 2 lbs. They are 

 conical-oblong, hard as wood, and of a pleasing 

 and warm yellowish brown tint. For many years 

 they remain closed, even when kept in a warm 

 room, the hooked scales, which are nearly i inch 

 in length, adhering firmly together. The tree is 

 comparatively hardy in this country, and stands 

 exposure well, as the fine specimen at South- 

 borough, in Kent, clearly shows. Probably the 

 largest tree of the Pinus Coulteri that has ever 

 been produced in this country was one at Highnam 

 Court, which was blown down in the spring of 

 1916. The trunk measured 80 feet in length and 

 contained 109 cubic feet of timber. Cones, many 

 12 inches long, had been freely produced, and some 

 were persistent on the branches for many years. 

 Another tree at Hoddesdon, Herts, was 80 feet 

 high and 9I feet in girth in 1908, and bore 20 large 

 cones in that year. It was planted in 1857. 



P. DENSIFLORA, Siehold et Zuccarini. Japan. 

 1854. — This is a distinct tree of massive and 

 rounded contour, the upward-pointing branches 

 being thickly set, the foliage reminding one of the 

 bright bluish green of certain forms of the Scotch 

 Pine, and to which, especially in a young state, 

 it bears a marked resemblance. The leaves are 

 two in a sheath, fully 3 inches in length ; and the 

 cones, which are often produced in small clusters, 

 are 2 inches long, and of a light grey colour. This 

 pine cannot long succeed when planted on cold or 

 stiff soils, even although thoroughly drained, and 

 I have known several healthy specimens to die 



