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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUAJ. 



PART HI. 



'P\nus syMstris in France. Near Paris, at Verridres, 20 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 Uft. 

 high. AtColombey, near Metz, 70 years planted, it is 99 ft. high, thediameter of the trunk 2 ft. 6in. In 

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

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



Vlnus sylv^stris in other Countries. In Bavaria, in the Botanic Garden at Munich, 24 years planted, 

 it is 24 ft. high. In Austria, near Vienna, at Bruck on the Levtha, 60 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 Sosnovy Rosha, 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 6(1 ft. high. 



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

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

 a thousand ; plants one year transplanted, 10s. a thousand; and two years 

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

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

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

 ]s.6d. a thousand; and of the pin de Hagueneau, at Bollwyller, 8 cents each. 

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

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

 are 1 franc 30 cents per lb. 



» i 2. P. (s.) PUftii'Lio Hcenke. The dwarf, or Mountain, Pine. 



Identification. Hainke Beob., 68. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 49.5. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t 2. ; Cam. Hort., 

 1,27. ; Clus. Pan., 15. ; Hall. Helv., No. 1668. y ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 314. ; Lodd. Cat, cd. 

 1836; Baura. Cat, ed. 1835. ^^ ,. ,. , ^ , 



Synonymes. P. sylv^stris montina y Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 366. ; P. s. hOmilis y Seal. Cat. 

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

 P. hamilis, &c., Tourn. Inst., 586; P. suedeticus seu cari)ftticus Vngarisch Mag., Ster bande, j8. ; 

 Pinaster cbnis erectis Bauh. Pin., VJi. ; P. Utirica Mill, in Herb. Banks. ; P. p. montanus Park., 

 1537. f. 8. ; P. qui'irtus austrlacus Clus. Hist., 1. p. 32. ; Pin nain, Fr. ; Krumholz, Ger 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 2. ; our Jig. 2061., to our usual scale, and figs. 2057. and 2058., 



of the natural size. 

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

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

 woolly, white sheaths. Cones, 1^ 2058 



when young, erect ; when ma- 

 ture, pointing outwards. Buds 

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

 nous. Leaves(^^. 2058.) from 

 2 in. to 2^ in. long; sheaths, 

 at first, from ^in. to l|in. long, 

 white and lacerated ; afterwards 

 falling off or shrinking to \ in. 

 or \ in. long, and becoming 

 dark brown or black. Cones 

 {d) from 1^ in. to 2 in. long, and 

 from \ in. to 1 in. broad ; reddish or 

 dark purplish brown when young, and 

 of a dull brown when mature. Scales 

 (6) and seeds (o) resembling those 

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

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

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

 pine. Fig. 2003. in p. 2190. is a portrait of a bush at Dropmore, which, 

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



Varieties. 



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



respect from P. (s.) pumilio. There is a bush of it at Dropmore 

 above 12 ft. high, and covering a space 21 ft. in diameter. 



• t P. (s.) p. 3 Fisc/ieri Booth, Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, Lnwsons Man., 



p. 333. — Only small grafted plants of 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 P. (s.) pumilio, that we 

 doubt vci-y much if it even merits to be considered as a variety of 



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