106 Demesnes, &c. 



excellent, and much used for boat-building ; and I 

 believe it grows well near the sea. 



Pinus insignis, justly called the remarkable Pine r 

 is too well known to say more than that it is of rapid 

 growth and tolerably hardy. Bather light, dry,, 

 loamy soil suits it, where it has free air without 

 severe winds. Introduced in 1833, it has grown 

 already seventy feet in England. 



Of P. Pinsapo I have read : 



" Hail ! Pinsapo, thou goodly tree ! 

 Thou art all grace and symmetry, 



Gem of Iberia's land. 

 A pitchy wood tho' we confess, 

 Yet perfect lignine these hath less ; 



And well thy charms demand 

 That thee in rank our strains address 

 As next our Queen our fair Princess." 



A few young plants of what is called the Golden 

 Larch, Pseudolarix Kaemferi, which was introduced 

 from China into England in 1852, with doubts as to 

 its hardiness, promise so well in the different places I 

 have seen them, that I invite attention to the tree. 

 Deciduous, like common Larch, it attains a height of 

 sixty feet, with leaves double the length and breadth 

 of our own one, and of graceful drooping habit. The 

 largest specimen of this handsome, and I believe 

 valuable, timber tree I know in Ireland is at Old 

 Gonna, near Dublin, where it is some twelve feet 

 high, and looks healthy ; but some which I saw a few 

 years ago may already have exceeded that height. 



