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A maritime Pine found wild only in the vicinity of the Californian coast 

 exposed to the fogs and winds of the Pacific Oc an. 



Our experience shows that this Pine has not been a success in the Sydney 

 Botanic Gardens. It is, however, worthy of additional experiments, and 

 should be thoroughly tested along the South Coast. It is a small-leaved, 

 dense-growing species, and its real value for New South Wales remains to 

 be ascertained. 



(20.) P.palustris, Miller. "Long-leaved Pine," "Southern Pitch Pine," 

 "Southern Yellow Pine," "Yellow Broom Pine." Sargent, tt. 589, 590. 

 A medium sized or tall tree. 



Pinus palustris is almost the sole ingredient of the immense forests stretching unin- 

 terruptedly along the Atlantic seaboard from south-east Virginia to the Everglades in 

 Florida, and also along the northern littoral of the Gulf of Mexico as far as Trinity 

 Valley in South Texas. This belt, known in the United States as the Southern " Pine 

 Barrens," varies from 80 to 125 miles in breadth in the Atlantic States, but is much 

 narrower along the Gulf coast ; it is estimated to have once covered upwards of 130,000 

 square miles, an area greater than that of Great Britain and Ireland, and to have repre- 

 sented an amount of wealth which, if properly husbanded, would have made the States 

 of South Carolina and Georgia among the richest in the Union. But, " invaded from every 

 direction by the axe, a prey to tires which weaken the mature trees and destroy the 

 tender saplings, wasted by the pasturage of domestic animals, and destroyed for the 

 doubtful profits of the turpentine industry, the forests of Long-leaved Pines appear 

 hopelessly doomed to lose their commercial importance at no distant day." * 



It is by far the most valuable Pine of the Atlantic States, and still the most abundant. 

 It supplies nearly the whole of the turpentine, pitch, tar and resin of American 

 commerce a" well as for home consumption, and its timber is used for all sorts of 

 constructive purposes, including ship-building, house carpentry, fencing, railway ties, 

 etc. ( Veitcli's Manual, p. 353. ) 



See "Waste in Logging Southern Yellow Pine," by J. Girvin Peters, 

 Year-book, Dept. Agric. U.S.A., 1905. 



Prof. B. E. Fernow says it is one of the best Pines of the United States. 



It is too tender for Great Britain, and is a species well worthy of attention 

 in coastal New South Wales. It promises well ; for example, there is a fine 

 specimen in the National Park, sent out by the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and 

 further tests are being made in the Botanic Gardens. 



(21.) P. patula, Schiede. 



A large trep, native of Central Mexico. It is "one of the most orna- 

 mental of Pines," rather tender for Great Britain, and should have more 

 extensive trial here. Up to the present time it has show T n itself a rather slow 

 grower in the Sydney Botanic Gardens, but is full of promise. It was distri- 

 buted by the Sydney Botanic Gardens some years ago, but reports are not 

 available as to results. 



L 32 (Sydney Botanic Gardens). 



(22.) P. Pinaster, Sol. (Syn. P. maritima, Lam.). "Cluster Pine" or 

 " Maritime Pine." 



South Europe and the Levant. 



Figured and described in Bentley and Trimen's Medicinal Plants. 



* Silva of North America, xi, 156. 



