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Bhotan pine ( Pinm excels). It presents such pictu- 

 resque open masses, and the leaves are so long and deli- 

 cately green that the 

 eye dwells on its 

 varied outlines with 

 exceeding pleasure. 



Then there is the 

 Swiss stone pine 

 (P. cenibraj, bluish- 

 green, and extremely 

 striking in winter, 

 as well as extremely 

 hardy. Among the 

 dwarf pines such 

 forms are noteworthy 

 as the dark mughus 

 and mughus compacta, 

 the finely tinted light- 

 blue dwarf white 

 pine, and the more 

 yellow and rounder dwarf Scotch. Mughus uncinata is also 

 striking, and, although dwarf, quite erect in habit. The 

 large-growing pines massed in the background among the 

 other large spruces are peculiarly varied in color and form, 

 and often very beautiful, laden with snow and ice. Dark, 

 massive Austrian pines should have their forms displayed 

 somewhat more prominently than the rest, while the deli- 

 cate-lmed and more sparsely-branched white pines should 

 be grouped directly with the Norway spruces, for the sake 

 of artistic breadth combined with interesting variety. 



CEDAR OF LEBANON. 



tCEDRUS LIBAM.) 



