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think there is no doubt but that they are specifically distinct. 

 They are about 40 ft. high, with a girt of 3 ft. 8 in.; and have been 

 planted about twenty years. Branches, when young, verticillate, 

 afterwards irregular, straggling, and much twisted ; naked, except 

 at the ends of the shoots. Cones, after the manner of P. 

 Pinaster, persistent long after the leaves are gone. One of the 

 trees having lost its leading shoot, four or five long straggling 

 shoots, pointing upwards, have taken its place. Bark rugged, 

 with deep fissures. These pines have, on the whole, a singular 

 appearance ; and I should like to know what they are, as I do 

 not recollect seeing anything like them before ; and, from the 

 immense mass of information you must have collected on the 

 genus Pinus for the Arbo-etwn BritatmicuiUf I think you will be 

 most likely to be able to tell me. 



We have likewise some fine trees of Liriodendron Tulipifera, 

 from 75 ft. to 85 ft. high, and girting from 7 ft. 6 in. to 8 ft. 

 6 in. ; beech, in height from 50 ft. to 60 ft., 15 ft. in circum- 

 ference, and 80 ft. in the spread of the branches ; Carpinus 

 J5etulus, 65 ft. high, 6 ft. 6 in. in girt, and 75 ft., diameter of 

 the head, growing on a springy wet soil ; and a great many 

 other specimens, which, although fine trees, are not of sufficient 

 interest to send you a particular account of. The different species 

 of the genus Quercus grow well here, particularly Q. Cerris, 

 Q. Plex integrifolia, &c., as well as Q. peduHculata, in the 

 plantations and woods, although for the most part on a wet 

 peaty soil ; a proof that the soil for oaks should be examined 

 a great depth down before we ought to conclude which is, or is 

 not, a proper soil for that tree. I have hitherto seen but one 

 specimen of Q. sessiliflora in this neighbourhood. 



Bowood Garde?ts, Fehruary 22. 1838. 



Art. IV. A List of the ligneous and other Plants "which have stood 

 the Winter in the Cesarean Nursery in the Island of Jersey. By 

 Bernard Saunders. 



I PROCEED, agreeably to your request, to give you a short 

 account of a few ligneous and other plants, bulbs, &c., which 

 have stood the test of our late severe winter. From the registers 

 I have kept during the first three months of the current year, 

 it appears that our coldest day was January the 19th, when 

 Fahrenheit's thermometer, at five o'clock p.m., was 18°, in a 

 north aspect. In February, our coldest days were the 12th and 

 14th: at eight o'clock a.m., the thermometer stood at 24°. 

 The average heat, at midday, during the month, was 40°, 

 in a north aspect. In March, our coldest day was on the 1 1th, 

 when, at 8 a.m., the thermometer stood at 33°. The average heat, 

 during the month, at midday, was 48°, in a north aspect. From 

 a correspondent at Sheffield, I find the average diffi;rence in 



