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state, that a specimen at Osborne made shoots six feet 

 six inches long last season ; but the situation was well 

 prepared for it before planting. 



PINUS LLAVEANA. Schiede. 

 (La Llava's Stone Pine.) 



Is one of the hardiest Pines, and is well adapted for 

 planting on bleak hill-sides. It is a dwarf tree, seldom 

 more than fifteen or twenty feet high, indigenous to 

 the mountain slopes about Real del Oro in Mexico. 

 Foliage glaucous green. Leaves short and thickly set 

 in tufts upon the branches. An ornamental tree. 



PINUS LAMBERTIANA. Douglas. 

 (Lambert's Pine.) 



A very lofty tree, sometimes two hundred feet high in 

 its native habitats in N. "W. America. It attains its 

 greatest height in pure sand, according to Douglas's 

 account, by whom it was introduced, and in such situa- 

 tions perfects its large edible seeds in abundance. As it 

 approaches maturity, its trunk becomes free of branches 

 for about one-third its entire height, bearing a pyra- 

 midal-shaped head. Branches verticillate, somewhat 

 pendulous. Leaves four inches long, of a bright green. 

 A specimen has produced cones at A. Gr. Speirs', Esq., 

 Culcruick, by Fintry, Stirling. There is a variety in 

 cultivation with shorter foliage than the species. 



