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EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



of the larger forms of mugho pine, but is entered on their catalogue 

 simply as Pinus uncinata erecta. It has the deepest pure green 

 color we have ever seen in an evergreen, and as there grown, in 

 rich, cultivated ground, there is a velvety depth in the shadings of 

 its foliage that we have never seen surpassed. May this not be the 



FIG. i6q. 



P. m. uliginosa of Gordon ? The specimen which is given in the 

 engraving is about eighteen feet high, and bids fair to greatly 

 exceed this height at maturity. How much of the beauty of this 

 specimen depends on the unusual fertility of the soil in which it 

 grows, and how much on the innate character of the species, we 

 cannot tell. Possibly in a common soil, the richness of its dark 

 verdure might change to sombreness. 



THE MOUNTAIN PINE. Pinus pumilio. Described by Gordon 

 as follows : " Leaves in two's, curved, short, stiff, thickly set on the 

 branches, from two to two-and-a-half inches long, etc. Branches 

 turned upwards and very numerous, forming a dense bush, with the 



