VARIETIES OF PINES. in 



of age the seedling plants should be transplanted into 

 nursery lines. The tree was introduced into this 

 country over a hundred years ago, by the Duke of 

 Argyle. Although growing very slowly at first, when 

 young, yet, as it grows older, it makes more rapid 

 progress, being the exact opposite in this respect to 

 other trees I have described. It retains its lateral 

 branches down to the surface of the ground, in a very 

 marked manner, the trunk growing erect, with a 

 smooth bark, its leaves being of a fine bright green 

 -colour and silvery appearance. The timber has a 

 fragrant perfume, and the tree has been known to 

 -attain the height of forty-five feet in thirty years. 



The Lofty or BJwtan Pine (P. excelsa). This is 

 also a very ornamental and hardy tree, young trees at 

 ten years of age being generally twelve feet high. It 

 bears a strong resemblance to the Weymouth pine, 

 but is stouter and of a more robust habit of growth, 

 its branches assuming a more drooping form, while its 

 leaves are considerably longer. It is a native of the 

 Himalayan mountains, where it grows from eighty to a 

 hundred feet high, and grows readily in this country 

 from imported seed. It was introduced in 1827. 



The Stone Pine (P. pined], The Stone pine 

 was introduced into England early in the sixteenth 

 century, but is grown solely as an ornamental plant, 

 being too tender to be reared successfully as a forest 

 tree. It grows best in a dry sandy soil, near to the 

 sea, but it needs shelter without confinement. If 

 crowded up it does not flourish. In Italy it forms the 

 most ornamental tree commonly met with in most 

 landscapes, yielding seeds of a larger size than those 

 of any other European pine, which are collected and 



