1016 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



habit both at the lower levels and on the highest parts of the mountains, and never 

 forms pure woods, growing scattered amidst other trees, and only attaining 30 to 45 

 ft. in height. 



Cultivation 



This species was introduced by Orphanides, who gathered ripe seeds on Mt. 

 Peristeri in 1863, which were distributed by Messrs. Haage and Schmidt 1 of Erfurt. 



Through the kind offices of Pierce O'Mahony, Esq., I received a large quantity 

 of seed from King Ferdinand of Bulgaria in April 1908. This has been widely dis- 

 tributed to different friends throughout England, Ireland, and Scotland. Most of it 

 was tardy in germination, and the seed came up irregularly, some not germinating 

 until 1909. 2 



The finest tree known to us in England is one at Bicton, which, when measured 

 by Elwes in 1906, was 42 -ft. high by 3 ft. 8 in. in girth, and was bearing cones. 

 There is also a good one at Grayswood, 36 ft. by 3 J ft., planted in 1881 ; and 

 one at The Heath, Leighton Buzzard, 37 ft. by 2 ft. 10 in., both measured by Mr. 

 A. B. Jackson in 1908. 



A group of healthy trees are growing in Kew gardens, near the Isleworth Ferry 

 gate, which were raised from seed of the original importation sown in 1864. These 

 trees have a thriving appearance, and the largest one measured, in 1909, 42^ ft. by 

 3 ft. 10 in. 



At Westonbirt there are several trees 30 to 35 ft. in height and a foot in 

 diameter, growing beside a tree of P. monticola, about 50 ft. high and 15 in. in 

 diameter, which was planted at the same time. 



There are two trees at Galloway House, Wigtownshire, the larger of which 

 measured, in 1908, 48 ft. by 4 ft. 9 in. ; and a smaller tree is growing at Ochtertyre, 

 Perthshire. 



According to Mayr, P. Peuke is as fast in growth and as hardy in Germany as 

 the Weymouth pine. It has withstood without injury the severe temperature of 

 2 2 Fahr. at Grafrath, near Munich, and for so far has not been attacked by 

 Agaricus melleus. It may possibly also be immune to the pine blister {Peridermium 

 Strobi), which is so destructive to the Weymouth pine in many places on the con- 

 tinent. For these reasons Mayr is inclined to recommend the immediate planting in 

 Germany of P. Peuke in place of the Weymouth pine. 



Elwes saw in the nursery of Regel and Kesselring at St. Petersburg in 1908 

 young trees of P. Peuke which on damp and sandy soil had attained 1 2 ft. high in 

 twelve years, and had resisted 30 degrees centigrade of frost without injury. It 

 seems, therefore, likely to become a valuable forest tree in central Europe. 



In New England this species 8 is quite hardy in the Arnold Arboretum, where, 

 however, Sargent says that it is a slow-growing tree of no especial ornamental 

 value. (A. H.) 



1 A letter of Haage and Schmidt to Lindley concerning the first seed of this pine, and dated nth January 1864, is 

 preserved in the Cambridge Herbarium. 



2 Mr. Storie reports from Highclere that about 300 plants came up in April 1909. 



3 Garden and Forest, x. 461 (1897). 



