282 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



reprehensible, when the simple reason of such destruction consists in 

 replacing the pines by other perhaps more fashionable but less sani- 

 tary trees. 



Pinus Pinceana, Gordon. 



Mexico, up to 9,000 feet above the sea-level. A very remarkable 

 pine, frequently to 60 feet high, having drooping branches like the 

 Weeping Willow. Most desirable for cemeteries. 



Pinus Pindrow, Royle. 



Himalayan mountains, 7,000 to 12,000 feet above the sea-level. A 

 fine, straight-stemmed fir, becoming 190 feet high; cones purple. 

 Considered by Stewart and Brandis a variety of P. Webbiana. 



Pinus Pinea, Linn4.* 



Stone-Pine. Countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea, ex- 

 tending to the Canary-Islands. Height of tree 80 feet; top rather 

 flat. The wood is whitish, light, but full of resin, and much used for 

 furniture, naval architecture and general building purposes. The 

 seeds are edible, but of a resinous though not disagreeable taste; they 

 should be left in the cones until they are about to be used, as other- 

 wise they speedily become rancid; they only ripen in their third year. 

 This pine grows as easily and almost as quickly as the Cluster-Pine. 

 The bark contains much tan-principle. 



Pinus Pinsapo, Boissier. 



Spanish Fir. Spain and North-Africa, at from 3,000 to 6,000 feet 

 elevation. A tree to 70 feet high, with branches from the ground. 

 The timber is similar to that of the Silver-Fir and resinous. 



Pinus polita, Antoine. 



Japan and Kurile-Islands. A tall superb spruce, forming large 

 forests on the mountain-ranges (A. Murray). Resists severe frost. 

 Allied to P. Smithiana. 



Pinus ponderosa, Douglas.* (P. JSenthamiana, Hartweg.) 



Yellow Pitch-Pine or Trucker-Pine. North- Western America, 

 Height of tree often to 225 feet, with a stem reaching 24 feet in cir- 

 cumference. Growth comparatively quick. The wood is yellowish, 

 hard, strong, durable and heavy; for general purposes it is preferred 

 to that of any other pine, and also largely used in mining operations. 

 There are fine groves of this tree up to 5,000 feet elevation in Cali- 

 fornia, but the variety P. Engelmanni (Parry) ascends to 12,000 feet. 

 The bark contains a considerable quantity of tanning substance. 

 Wood pale and soft, neither knotty nor resinous, much esteemed for 

 cabinet-work (Hoopes) ; it is of great strength, and used for floors, 

 joists and much other work in carpentry. Gibbons relates, that the 

 wood, with the bark adherent, exposed to the weather, will decay 

 within a year, but that when stripped and covered with soil it is readily 

 preserved. Dr. Kellogg, who aptly calls this tree herculean, saw logs, 



