HORTUS VEITCHII 



PINUS PAEVIFLOEA, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Gard. Cliron. 1861, p. 265; id. 1878, vol. x. p. 624, fig. 103; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, 



p. 353. 



Introduced to British Gardens by the late John Gould Veitch in 

 1861. 



Cultivated everywhere in pots throughout Japan, dwarfed and distorted 

 in every way, trained to every conceivable monstrosity, this pine when 

 in the forest groves is a light and graceful object. The small size, well 

 furnished trunk and light foliage are adaptable to small lawns. 



PINUS PENTAPHYLLA, Mayr. 



Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 356. 



A species closely allied to Pinus parviflora, endemic to Japan. 



Cones brought home by the late John Gould Veitch were supplemented 

 by a few seeds from Charles Maries in 1879, from which plants raised at 

 Coombe were subsequently distributed as P. parviflora, but their destination 

 is unknown. 



PINUS THUNBEEGII, Parlatore. 



Syns. P. massoniana, Sieb. & Zucc. 

 Man. Con. 1000, ed. 2, p. 384, fig. 



Pinus Thunbergii, sent to Europe by Siebold in 1855, and to Great 

 Britain with P. densiflora by the late John Gould Veitch, was unfortunately 

 distributed as P. massoniana. 



The curiously trained trees seen by Siebold, Maries, and others, probably 

 belong to this species. One of the most remarkable may be seen in front 

 of the Naniwaja tea-house, another in the village of Karasaki, and a 

 third and most curious of all in the garden attached to the monastery at 

 Kinkakuja, trained in the form of a Chinese junk. 



A figure of this extraordinary tree, which has taken over three centuries 

 of patient labour to produce, is given in the Manual of Coniferae (I.e. 

 supra) and as a photogravure plate in Traveller's Notes. 



PODOCAEPUS MACEOPHYLLUS, D. Don, vars. AEGENTEO and 

 AUEEO-VAEIEGATUS, Kent. 



Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 151 ; Gordon's Pinetum, ed. 2, p. 331. 



The type species first became known to science in the early part of the 

 eighteenth century, through Kaempfer, and the two variegated forms above 

 named are due to Fortune : re-introduced by James H. Veitch in 

 1892. 



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