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CHAPTER XIV 



THE PINETUM. 



RemarJis on Special Collections of Trees — The Pinetum — ilaterials 

 and Arrangement — Enumeration of Species, with ObseiTations on 

 the Groups — Effects of Climate — Soil — Early Cultivation of the 

 Plantg — Planting of the Pinetum — Pruning of the Trees — Deco- 

 rative Treatment of the Pinetum. 



Many persons, whose limited domains do not per- 

 mit, or whose scientific zeal does not incite them to 

 plant an arboretum, may yet be induced to form ex- 

 tensive collections of a few particular genera. A 

 botanist, for example, may begin by cultivating a few 

 willows, in order to study their characters at his leis- 

 ure, and he may add to his stock till it swells out to a 

 magnitude approaching that magnificent Salicetum 

 existing at Woburn Abbey. So a lover of wild roses 

 may extend his attention and predilection to the whole 

 of the species and numerous varieties of that beautiful 

 family; and such has been the origin of many fine 

 rosaries. We should like to see this method of special 

 culture more frequently exemplified. We have ob- 

 served a long walk in a pleasure-ground, skirted by a 

 row of oaks, exhibiting many divei-sified seminal vari- 

 eties, if not distinct species, and the thought occurred 

 that it would be a fine thing to have a broad ride bor- 

 dered with oaks in the sunny expanse of a wide park, 



