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true pi&urefque pine*. There it always fug- 

 gefts ideas of broken porticos, Ionic pillars, 

 triumphal arches, fragments of old temples, and 

 a variety of claffic ruins, which in Italian land- 

 fcape it commonly adorns. 



The ftone-pine promifes little in it's infancy 

 in point of pi&urefque beauty. It does not, 

 like moft of the fir-fpecies, give an early indi- 

 cation of it's future form. In it's youth it is 

 dwarfifh, and round-headed, with a mort ftem, 

 and has rather the fhape of a full-grown bum, 

 than of an increafing tree. As it grows older, 

 it does not foon depofit it's formal ihape. But 

 as it attains maturity, it's pidturefque form in- 

 creafes faft. It's lengthening ftem affumes 

 commonly an eafy fweep. It feldom indeed de- 

 viates much from a ftrait line : but that gentle 

 deviation is very graceful j tho above all other 

 lines difficult to trace. If accidentally either 

 the ftem, or any of the larger branches take a 

 larger fweep, than ufual, that fweep feldom 



fails to be graceful. It is alfo among the 



beauties of the ftone-pine, that as the lateral 



* This feems to be a difputed point. Millar believes it is not 

 indigenous in Italy : and indeed 1 never heard any traveller fay he 

 had met with it in any of the uncultivated parts of that country. 



branches 



