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prickles, longer than the leaves. Nuts large. 

 Italian stone pine. 



One of the most useful as well as hand 

 some of the tribe. No soil is too loose or too 

 barren for it to thrive in, nor any situation 

 too bleak or exposed. The seeds (which are 

 four years coming to perfection with the 

 cone) may be sown singly, as recommended 

 for the araucaria or No. 5. 



10. P. PONDEROSA, Douglass. Leaves in 

 3 s, nine to eleven inches long, flexible, tor 

 tuous. Sheaths short. Cones ovate, reflexed, 

 with the ends of the scales flattened, with a 

 raised process in the middle. Heavy wooded 

 pine. Native of the North-west coast. 



Said to grow from fifty to eighty feet high 

 in its native country. Plants in this vicinity 

 are not over three feet high, but it promises 

 to be a rapid and strong grower. Our plants 

 are imported from Europe ; but where seed 

 can be obtained, they may be treated as No. 5. 



11. P. PUMILIO, Hoenke. Branches gene 

 rally bent down. Leaves short, stiff, a little 

 twisted, thickly distributed over the branches, 

 with long, lacerated, woolly, white sheaths. 

 Cones, when young, erect; older growing 



