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of picturesque beauty in the production of this 

 kind of object. The Cabbage Tree, I suppose, is 

 as ugly as the Stone Pine is picturesque.' 



Of the many other beautiful species of Pine, 

 mention must be briefly made of one or two. 

 And first * the Remarkable Pine ' Pinus in- 

 signis claims notice, whose foliage is produced 

 in beautiful tufts of leaves of four and five inches 

 long, the tufts produced symmetrically at the ends 

 of the whorled branches, and looking like elegant 

 tassels. The Austrian Pine Pinus austriaca is 

 another species, with long, deep-green leaves 

 which, produced all round the stems, give a 

 handsome and bushy appearance to its branches, 

 whilst for the beauty of its long and drooping 

 foliage, nothing excels the splendid Pinus excelsa, 

 whose name speaks for its qualities. 



Amongst the Firs which are distinct and beau- 

 tiful in their characteristics, the Silver Fir and 

 two of its varieties demand first mention. The 

 dark-green glossy leaves of the normal species, 

 with their white-lined undersides streaks of 

 ' silver ' the leaves disposed in double rows 

 along the sides of the twigs that bear them; 



