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transplant easily any time after being grown 

 in this manner. 



5. P. LAMBERTTANA, Douglass. Leaves in 

 5's, a little rough ; sheath very short. Cones 

 cylindrical, twelve to sixteen inches long. 

 Scales loose, spread and rounded above. 

 Gigantic pine. Native of the North-west coast. 



This is said often to grow two hundred 

 feet high, and to be as hardy as the white 

 pine, to which it is allied. In the garden of 

 John Evans, it thrives admirably in a cool 

 sandy loam. When the nuts can be obtained, 

 they may be sown as soon as received, and 

 raised in the manner of the araucaria imbri- 

 cata. 



6. P. MITIS, Michaux. Leaves two, some- 

 times three in a sheath, long, slender, hollowed 

 on the upper surface. Cones small, ovate, 

 conical. Scales with their outer surface 

 slightly prominent, and terminating in a very 

 small slender point, bending outwards. 

 Yellow pine. Northern and Middle States. 



This has a very elegant appearance. The 

 bluish tinge of the long slender foliage is 

 almost peculiar to it. The Bartram speci- 

 men, on a dry gravelly soil, with a rocky 



