branches decay, they leave generally (lumps, 

 which {landing out in various parts of the flem, 

 break the continuity of it's lines. 



The bark is fmoother than that of any other 

 tree of the pine-kind, except the Weymouth ; 

 tho we do not efleem this among it's pic- 

 turefque beauties. It's hue however, which is 

 warm and reddifh, has a good effect; and 

 it obtains a kind of roughnefs by peeling off in 

 patches. 



The foliage of the flone-pine is as beautiful 

 as the flem. It's colour is a deep warm green ; 

 and it's form, inflead of breaking into acute 

 angles, like many of the pine-race, is moulded 

 into a flowing line by an affemblage of fmall 

 maffes. 



As age comes on, it's round clump-head 

 becomes more flat, fpreading itfelf into a 

 canopy, which is a form equally becoming. 

 And yet I doubt, whether any refinous tree 

 ever attains that pi&urefque beauty in age, 

 which we admire fo much in the oak. The 

 oak continues long vigorous in his branches, 

 tho his trunk decays : but the refinous tree, 

 I believe, decays more equally through all 

 it's parts, and in age oftener prefents the idea 

 of vegetable decrepitude, than of the flout 

 G 2 remains 



