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ARBORETUM AN'D FRUTJCETUM. 



PART III. 



eased in its appearance, nor does it 

 exhibit any peculiarities of constitu- 

 tion, to which other pines are not 

 subject. Occasionally, like the pinas- 

 ter and Scotch pines, it kills itself by 

 an exuberant bearing of cones ; and it 

 then assumes a very extraordinary 

 aspect, reminding one. Sir Charles 

 Lemon observes, of the groups of 

 little wooden birds, or popinjays, 

 perched on the ends of sticks, at which 

 the people of Holland and Belgium 

 shoot for prizes with bows and ar- 

 rows. The foliage, when this takes 

 place, drops off, and the tree is reduced 

 to a collection of dry sticks, each 

 terminated by a cone. The largest 



tree that Sir Charles Lemon had seen, measured, in 1833, 44 in. 

 in girt at 4 ft. from the ground, after being planted 35 years. Mr. 

 Booth, in 1837, informed us that the two largest trees of this 

 varietv that he knew of, grew in rather an exposed situ- 

 ation between Carclew and Mylor Bridge, and that they 

 were about 30 ft. high, diameter of the trunk about 15 in., 

 and of the head from 15 ft. to 18 ft. When of this size, 

 Mr. Booth considers this variety to be a very graceful tree 

 " the head being round, compact and bushy, and pre- 

 senting an agreeable contrast to the pyramidal head of the 

 Scotch pine, or the pinaster." There 

 are many smaller trees at Carclew, 

 Sir Charles Lemon's (seat in Corn- 

 wall, which, at 8 or 9 years' growth, 

 assume all the characters that be- 

 long to the variety ; and even seed- 

 ling's of 3 years' old show symp- 

 toms of the same peculiarities. It 

 is not uncommon in the woods of 

 Carclew, and those of Lady Basset 

 adjoining. Mr. Booth has also ob- 

 served it in other parts of the county, 

 but not out of it. There is a plant 

 in the pinetum at Carclew which, 

 in 1837, after being G years planted, 

 was 6 ft. 6 in. high. 

 1 P. P. 4 minor ; P. maritima minor 

 iV. Dii Ham., v. p. 242 t. 72. bis, 

 f. l.,andour/g. 2104.; Pin Pinsot, 

 Pin de Mans, Pin a Trochet.— 

 This variety, which is chiefly distin- 



(ruished by "the somewhat smaller size of its cones, bemg 

 from 3iin. to 4 in. long, and 1^ in. broad, is said by Bosc 

 to be produced by a colder climate, and to abound on the 

 west coast of France, especially on the barren sands in the 

 nei-^hbourhood of Mans ; and to be hardier than the species. 

 It is found in the Landes of Bordeaux, growing along with P. Pi- 

 naster. There is a specimen of this variety in the Jardin des Plantes, 

 as well as of P. Pinaster, known there as P. maritima major; and a 

 considerable quantitv of P. maritima minor has been sown in the 

 Forest of Fontainebleau. Judging from the spccmiens with cones 

 M'hich have been sent us from different parts of the country, this 



