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feet high, with leaves often sixteen inches long, very 

 slender, pendulous, and of a beautiful light green. 

 A very ornamental species, and will probably be 

 sufficiently hardy for most localities in this country. 



PINUS GRENVILLE^E. Gordon. 



(Lady Grenville's Pine.) 



Much resembles Pinus macrophylla. Found on the 

 highest peaks of Corra de San Juan, in Mexico. A 

 very robust tree, seventy or eighty feet high, of irregular 

 growth. Leaves deep green, twelve or fourteen inches 

 long. A noble and probably hardy tree. 



PINUS HARTWEGIL Lindley. 

 (Hartweg's Pine.) 



A native of the mountains of Mexico, at an elevation 

 of about 9000 feet. It occurs immediately above the 

 limits of Abies religiosa. Height about fifty feet. 

 Leaves six inches long. It was introduced in 1839, 

 and has proved tolerably hardy, but is sometimes 

 damaged by spring frosts ; and during very severe 

 frosts in winter its foliage becomes slightly brown. 

 A very handsome species. 



PINUS HALEPENSIS Miller. 

 (Aleppo Pine.) 



SYN. Pinus genuensis. Cook. 

 Pinus cairica. Don. 



Indigenous to the coasts of the Mediterranean, in 

 dry sandy or rocky soils. Though sometimes growing 



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