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feet. Take it all in all, we do not know a finer or more avail- 

 able evergreen. It grows in any soil and has a strong, ram- 

 pant, healthy look, which is positively refreshing when sur- 

 rounded by its more delicate companions, the half-hardy ones 

 It is very rapid in its progress, and has a firm, stocky growth, 

 retaining its fine green color during our hottest summers and 

 coldest winters. In Austria it is very much esteemed for 

 charcoal, and the wood is said to resist the alternations o) 

 moisture and dryness better, even, than the Larch. By some, il 

 is supposed to be only a variety of laricio. 



P. Banksiana (Sir Joseph Banks' pine) Is a stunted, 



scrubby, straggling bush, from five to ten feet 



P. Hudsonica. high; in good soil it reaches, sometimes, fifteen 



feet. It is found in the most northern parts oJ 



North America, in Maine, Nova Scotia, Labrador, &c., and is 



only valuable to complete a collection. 



P. Beardsleyi. We are inclined to think both these trees 

 are identical, and are synonymous with P. pon- 

 ^ Crai^eana. ^ erosa i though they are sold as distinct in the 

 English nurseries, and in ours also. They belong 

 to what are called the " Long-leaved Californians," such as 

 Benthamiana, Ponderosa, Macrocarpa, &c., and when young, 

 they resemble each other so closely that we must confess we 

 are puzzled to tell them apart, and are not surprised at the con- 

 fusion. Carriere, in his Historie General des Coniferes, makes 

 Beardsleyi a distinct variety, but does not describe it, merely 

 saying, it was introduced in seed in 1855, from North America; 

 but Gordon, who seems the more thorough as well as the latest 

 writer, regards them as synonyms of Ponderosa. In the 

 absence of any more light, or until the trees get larger, so as 

 to show the difference, if it exists, we shall adopt this classifi- 

 cation, and refer our readers to our subsequent description of 

 Ponderosa, for what may prove, presently, to answer for these 

 trees. 



P. Benthamiana (Bentham's pine). This superb tree, said 

 to be the grandest of the " Long-leaved Califor- 

 ^p Sinclair! nians," was found by Mr. Hartweg, on the moun- 

 tains of Vera Cruz, where he discovered specimens 

 two hundred to two hundred and twenty feet high, with stems 



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