CONIFERS. 8 1 



PINUS EXCELSA. Wallich. 

 (Nepal Pine.) 



SYN. Pinus Strolus. Hamilton. 

 Pinus Chylla. Loddiges. 

 Pinus DicJcsonii. Gardens. 

 Pinus pendula. Griffith. 



The true species is very handsome, but there are 

 many varieties in cultivation bearing the name but 

 little superior to the Weymouth Pine, to which it 

 bears some resemblance. Height about one hundred 

 feet. Branches placed in regular whorls, which, with 

 the trunk, are covered with a smooth grey bark. Leaves 

 six or seven inches long, slender, of a pale glaucous 

 green, partially drooping. It is an invaluable tree for 

 planting on poor sandy soils, in exposed situations, 

 succeeding well where most of the other Pines would 

 scarcely grow at all. 



PINUS FILIFOLIA. Lindley. 

 (Thread-like-leaved Pine.) 



A very noble tree, a native of Guatemala, remark- 

 able for its slender thread-like leaves, which are often 

 twelve or fourteen inches long. It much resembles 

 Pinus australis, especially in its very robust branches. 

 Only sufficiently hardy for favourable localities. 



