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from this tree, and from the Pitiis (Pinus Pi'nca). The resinous 

 parts of the wood of the Pciikos are cut into small pieces, and serve 

 for candles, called dadia. The cones {koinoi) are sometimes put into 

 the wine barrels. The bark is used in tanning hides. The wood is 

 much employed by carpenters in building." (Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 

 p. 17.) 

 t P. //. i geiiuensis, P. genuensis Cook. — The plant in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden was raised from cones brought from the coast of 

 Genoa, by Captain Cook, in 1830. It has not yet borne cones in 

 England, and does not appear, in foliage and habit, different from 

 the species. The cone we possess is Sin. long, and l^in. in dia- 

 meter at the broadest end, and regularly pyramidal. The length of 

 the stalk is f in. 



Description. A tree, rising generally to the height of 25 ft. or 30 ft., 

 though sometimes to that of 40 ft. or 50 ft., with a trunk acquiring, at the 

 ground, from 4 ft. to 5 ft. of circumference. When young, it has a spreading 

 head, with more slender branches than most other pines. The bark of the 

 trunk and branches is greyish or ash-coloured, and rather smooth, even 

 when the tree is old. The bark of the young 



branches is greenish, and less scaly than is ^ ,i 2113 



usual in species of this genus. The old trees 

 have a round head, and are generally, in Eng- 

 land at least, broader than they are high. The 

 leaves are of a deep green, 2 in. or Sin. long, 

 most commonly 2 in a sheath, but some- 

 times, though rarely, 3 ; and they are so dis- 

 posed as to form a double spiral round the 

 branches. They never remain longer than two 

 years on the tree ; in consequence of which 

 the branches of old trees have a naked appear- 

 ance, and the head looks open, straggling, and 

 thin. The male catkins are reddish, from ^ in. 

 to Ytr'"^' i" length, on short pedicels, disposed 

 in branches of 30 or 40 together. The crest 

 is large, proportionably to the size of the an- 

 thers, and is rounded. The female catkins 

 are not, as is usual, placed at the extremity of 

 the shoot of the year, but come out at the side 

 of the shoot, and towards the middle of it : they point outwards during their 

 flowering, and are of a greenish hue, slightly tinged with red. The cones 

 have very strong peduncles of half an inch or more in length; and, as they 

 advance in size, they take a direction almost perpendicularly downwards. 

 The cones are of a very regular pyramidal form, somewhat rounded at the 

 base; 2 in, or 3 in. long; of a yellowish or fawn colour, but taking a greyish 

 tinge when mature. The extremities of the scales project very slightly : 

 they are scarcely angular, and are somewhat convex. The seeds are oval 

 li in. long, pointed at their lower extremities, and with the wings measuring 

 1 in. in length. The tree grows rapidly when young, acquiring the height 

 of 15ft. or 20 ft. in ten years; after which it increases more slowly, and, in 

 England at least, loses much of its beauty, by the head becoming open and 

 straggling. The head, from its rapid growth, generally leans to the side 

 opposite to that from which the prevailing wind of the locality blows the 

 branches, in young trees, generally resting on the ground ; so that the trunk is 

 seldom, if ever, erect and straight. The cones are produced at the age of 10 

 years, but seldom in any great quantity. The finest trees which we have 

 seen of this species are at White Knights and Dropmore; at which places, in 

 1837, there were trees 17 ft. and 27 ft. high. That in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, of which a portrait is given in our last Volume, was, in 



