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being reputed to be those in a temple grove at Chusenji near Nikko, which measure 

 about ioo ft. in height and 10 ft. in girth, with clean stems of 30 to 40 ft. 



Cultivation 



This tree was introduced in 1861 from a Japanese nursery by J. Gould Veitch. 1 

 It appears to be perfectly hardy, but rather slow in growth. The best specimens 

 known to us are growing in Ireland one at Fota, which was, in 1903, 32 ft. high, with 

 a girth of 2 ft. 2 in. ; and another at Kilmacurragh, 40 ft. by 2 ft., in 1907, when it 

 bore cones. A tree at Bicton, 34 ft. high by 2 ft. in girth in 1908, has produced 

 cones, with fertile seed, from which a seedling was raised three years ago. A good 

 specimen at Highnam, about 25 ft. high, was bearing cones in March 19 10. Another 

 at Grayswood, planted in 1882, is 24 ft. by 1 ft. 4 in.; and one at Tregrehan is 

 20 ft. by 1 ft. We know of none in Scotland. 2 



At Segrez in France there is a fine specimen, which in 1904 was 40 ft. high 

 and 4 ft. in girth. It has peculiar epicormic branches on the trunk, and bears cones 

 and good seeds, from which plants have been raised. At Ansorge's nursery, Flott- 

 beck, near Hamburg, there is a tree 25 ft. high, which has produced fertile seed. 



It is perfectly hardy in New England, 3 and on account of its dense foliage is 

 very ornamental. It produces freely cones and good seeds. The finest specimen, 

 which is growing in Mr. Hunnewell's pinetum at Wellesley, Massachusetts, was 38 

 ft. high in 1905, and was bearing cones when I saw it in 1906. (A. H.) 



PINUS ARMANDI 



Pinus Armandi, Franchet, Plantce Davidiana, i. 285, pi. 12 (1884), and m Journ. de Bot. xiii. 254 



(1899); Beissner, in Mit. deut. dend. Ges. 1896, p. 68, Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. iv. 184, t. 5, 



f. 2 (1897), and Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1899, p. 310; Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxvi. 



549 (1902), xxxv. 582 (1904), in Gard. Chron. xxxiii. 66, figs. 30, 31 (1903), and in Journ. Bot. 



1903, p. 269; Clinton-Baker, Illust. Com/, i. 6 (1909). 

 Pinus Armandi, Franchet, var. Mastersiana, Hayata, in Tokyo Journ. Coll. Science, xxv. 216, fig. 8 



(1908). 

 Pinus quinquefolia, David, Voyage en Chine, i. 192 (1875), and in Nouv. Archiv. Musium, vii. 95 



(1884). 

 Pinus scipioniformisf Masters, in Bull. Herb. Boissier, vi. 270 (1898). 

 Pinus koraiensis, Masters, in Gard. Chron. xxxiii. 34, figs. 18, 19 (1903), in Journ. Bot. xli. 269 



(1903), and in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxv. 582 (1904) (in part); Beissner, in Bull. Soc. Bot. 



Ital. 1899, p. 310 ; Diels, Flora von Central-China, 215 (1901). (Not Siebold et Zuccarini.) 

 Pinus Mastersiana, Hayata, in Gard. Chron. xliii. 194 (1908). 



A tree, attaining 60 ft. in height, with smooth and greenish bark. Buds cylin- 

 drical, obtuse, either non-resinous and bristly with free long-pointed scales, or 



1 Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 1114; Hortus Veitchii, 90 (1906). 



2 The tree at Ochtertyre, reported in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 534 (1892) as being 13 ft. in height in 1891, cannot now 

 be found, and may have been wrongly named. 



3 Garden and Forest, 1 897, p. 296. 



* This species is based on a specimen of P. Armandi, with young cones, collected by myself. The aberrant position of 

 the resin-canals in some of the leaves, noticed by Masters, is not unusual. Cf. Franchet, Journ. de. Bot. loc. cit. 



