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PINUS RADIATA. Don. 

 (Kadiated-scaled Pine.) 



Highly ornamental, growing one hundred feet high, 

 on the coast about Monterey, in California. Branches 

 thickly clothed with dark green slender leaves. Erom 

 its natural habitats being near the sea, it will probably 

 prove a desirable tree for planting in similar situations 

 in this country. 



PINUS RESINOSA. Solander. 



(Eesinous or Red Pine.) 

 SYN. Pinus rubra. Michaux. 



A tree seventy or eighty feet high, indigenous to 

 North America ; remarkable for its slender trunk, which 

 scarcely varies in diameter for the greater part of its 

 height. It derives the name Eed Pine from the colour 

 of its bark. Leaves five or six inches long, deep green, 

 collected in bunches at the extremities of the 

 branches. 



PINUS RIGIDA. Miller, 

 (Eigid Pine.) 



SYN. Pinus Tceda rigida. Alton. 

 Pinus Loddigesii. London. 



Found in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and other parts of 

 the United States of America, and in California, in a 

 variety of soil and situation, sometimes in damp places, 

 and often upon dry sandy plains, but succeeds best 

 in soils of a moist character. Height fifty or sixty 

 feet, with a much-branched trunk. Leaves stiff, of 



