CHAPTER V. 



Cone-bearing or Resinous Trees, adapted for cold and elevated Dis- 

 tricts Eighty Years for a Scotch Pine to arrive at Perfection, but 

 only forty for Larch The Pine Tree The Scotch Pine Forest 

 of Glenmore Large Plank presented to the Duke of Gordon 

 The Corsican Pine The Black Pine of Austria The Cluster Pine 

 The Weymouth Pine Dwarf Pines Gigantic or Lambert 

 Pine Varieties of American Pine The Heavy-wooded Pine 

 Long-leaved Indian Pine The Cembrian Pine The Lofty or 

 Bhotan Pine The Stone Pine The Larch Parkinson and Evelyn 

 mention the Larch Account by the Highland Society Foster's 

 Larch The springing up of the natural Grasses Spruce Firs 

 The Norway Spruce Douglas's Spruce Fir The Black Spruce 

 Fir The Hemlock Spruce Fir The White American Spruce 

 The Khutrow Spruce The Silver Fir Common Silver Fir Balm 

 of Gilead Silver Fir The Cedar Elliot Warburton's visit to 

 Lebanon The Indian Cedar Appropriate Trees for various 

 Situations Grafting Flowering Thorns. 



CONTINUING the system of arrangement I have 

 hitherto pursued, I shall now treat upon the cone- 

 bearing or resinous trees, adapted for cold and 

 elevated districts, where the soil is thin and poor. 



It will be in this section where planting for profit 

 can be carried out upon a large scale, and which in 

 some instances has been done of late years, to the vast 

 improvement of what were previously poor estates, 

 that yielded only the most trifling annual rental. 

 This has been especially the case with certain districts 

 in Scotland ; but upon what formerly were sandy 



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