84 CONIFERS. 



thirty or forty feet high, it is often much less, with the 

 character of a shrub rather than a tree. Branches 

 very slender and numerous. Leaves two or three inches 

 long, of a deep green, remaining only two years upon 

 the branches, from which circumstance the tree has 

 generally a thin straggling appearance. Succeeds well 

 amongst rocks, where the soil is scanty. 



PINUS INOPS. Solander. 



(Jersey Pine.) 

 STN. Pinus virginiana. Miller. 



This tree, besides being very ornamental, is well 

 adapted for planting in dry sandy soils, upon elevated 

 inland districts. It is a native of the interior of 

 N. W. America. Height about forty feet, with a clean 

 stem, when full grown, of fifteen or twenty feet. Leaves 

 about three inches long, of a dark green colour. 



PINUS INSIGNIS. - Douglas. 

 (Remarkable Pine.) 



SYN. Pinus californica. Loiseleur Deslongchamps. 

 Pinus adunca. Bosc. 



As a very distinct and beautiful tree, this species 

 yields to no other Pine. It is universally admired, 

 and is always conspicuous in the Pinetum, no matter 

 how select the collection of which it forms a part. 

 Colour a very rich vivid green. Leaves five or six 

 inches long. A native of California, perfectly hardy, and 

 grows very rapidly ; in confirmation of which we may 



