Fig. 24. PINE COXES. 



PINE TREES. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE Aleppo Pine (Pinus Halepensis, Fig. 26) is the com- 

 monest conifer in this part of the Riviera. Professor 

 Allman calls it eminently the Pine of the Provence hills. 

 It seldom grows, in this district, to the height of the 

 Pinaster, and indeed, in some places, retains almost 

 a frutescent (shrubby) habit.* Covering by itself 

 alone, to the exclusion of other trees, wide tracts of 

 country, or else accompanied by the Pinaster (Pinus 



* Given space and good earth, P. Halepensis will grow as tall as 

 P. Pinea or the Pinaster ; witness specimens in the Mortola grounds. 

 In Persia the tree attains magnificent dimensions. T. H. 



