:276 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Pinus Ksempferi, Lambert. 



Chinese Larch; also called Golden Pine. North-Eastern China. 



This is the handsomest of all the larches; it forms a transit to the 



cedars. Resists severe frost. It is of quick growth and attains a 



height of 150 feet. The leaves, which are of a vivid green during 



spring and summer, turn to a golden-yellow in autumn. The wood is 

 very hard and durable. 



Pinus Kasya, Royle. 



Kasya and also Burmah, from 2,000 to 7,000 feet. Closely related 

 to P. longifolia. Attains a height of 200 feet. Wood very resinous, 

 somewhat fibrous, rather close-grained, pale-brown with darker waves 

 (Kurz). 



Pinus Koraiensis, Siebold and Zuccarini. 



Kamtschatka, China and Japan. A handsome pine, often to 40 

 feet high, producing edible seeds. 



Pinus Lambertiana, Douglas.* 



Shake- Giant- or Sugar-Pine. British Columbia and California, 

 mostly at great altitudes. A lofty tree, of rapid growth, upwards of 

 300 feet high, with a straight stem attaining 60 feet in circumference. 

 It holds, in most places, preeminence in beauty and size over accom- 

 panying pines, and reaches an age of 600 years (Dr. Vasey). It 

 thrives best in sandy soil, and produces a soft, pale, straight-grained 

 wood, which for inside-work is esteemed above any other pine-wood 

 in California, and obtained in large quantities; it is especially used for 

 shingles, flooring and for finishing purposes by joiners and carpenters. 

 The tree yields an abundance of remarkably clear and pure resin, of 

 sweet taste, eaten even by the natives. The cones may be 19 inches 

 long; the seeds are edible. This pine would come to perfection best 

 in the humid regions of higher mountains. P. reflexa (Engelmann) 

 is an allied large species with smaller fruit, occurring in Arizona. 



Pinus Laricio, Poiret.* (P. maritima, Miller.) 



Corsican Pine. South-Europe, ascending to about 6,000 feet. It 

 attains a height of 150 feet. A splendid shelter-tree in the coldest 

 regions. It will succeed on stiff clay as well as on sandy soil, even 

 on sea-sand. The wood is pale, towards the centre dark, very 

 resinous, coarse-grained, elastic and durable, and much esteemed for 

 building, especially for water- works ; valuable also for its permanency 

 underground. There are three main-varieties of this pine, namely, 

 P. L. Poiretiana in Italy, P. L. Austriaca in Austria, P. L. Pallasiana 

 on the borders of the Black Sea. The tree grows best in calcareous 

 soil, but also in poor sandy soil, where however the timber is not so 

 large nor so good. It yields all the products of P. silvestris, but in 

 greater quantities, being perhaps the most resinous of all pines. 

 Assumed to attain an age of 500 years (Langethal). The Austriaca 

 variety attained a stem-girth of nearly 2 feet in 10 years when 

 cultivated in Nebraska (Governor Furnas). This species is regarded 



