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twelve years ago as (if we are not mistaken) " The Short-leaved 

 Weymouth," which we never thought correct, but there was so 

 little to distinguish it from an ordinary pine that we replaced 

 it by something more valuable. It was perfectly hardy. 



P. Halepensis (Aleppo, or Jerusalem pine). This variety 

 s n resembles the Brutia (which we have 



p. iiierosoiymitana. already described) so much as to be often 

 sold for it. We cannot quite, as yet, make 

 up our mind whether it will stand our climate here, or not. It 

 does very well in a wood, and a specimen more exposed, does 

 equally well, if it is true ; but the resemblance to Brutia is so 

 great that it may be this variety ; Maritima is often confounded 

 with it. Messrs. Hovey, in Boston, report it as hardy and fine 

 there ; but their plants, like ours, may prove Brutias, or some- 

 thing else. It is found on the east and west sides of the 

 Apennines, and in Sicily, among the rocks in Lybia, and in 

 Greece, growing to be a tree of thirty feet. 



P. Hartwegii (Hartweg's pine). This is a fine variety that 

 St n we remember to have struck us very forcibly ten 



p. resinosa. years ago, in England (when very small), from 

 p. standisw. the fine ^ denge color of the f ii age> i t i s one O f 



the Mexican pines, forty to fifty feet high, and beginning on 

 the mountains at ten thousand feet elevation, where the Picea 

 religiosa ceases. We have tried it for several years with but 

 indifferent success, and have abandoned it as too tender for any 

 climate north of Virginia. It is too coarse for pots. 



P. inops (The New Jersey pine). This variety, too well 

 Syn , known to need description, is found from Carolina 



p. vadabiiia. to the Hudson River, but does, we think, extend 

 beyond it. It has a spreading top, and is thirty to forty feet 

 high, and, of course, must be planted in collections, though 

 hardly otherwise would be selected by the amateur. 



P. insignis (the Remarkable pine). We regret that this 



Syn certainly most beautiful pine will not 



p. Caiifornica, of Loisei. resist our winters, even in a wood ; 



though it will, no doubt, do well and 



prove a very great acquisition in our Southern States. It is so 

 attractive in its appearance, that it was one of the earliest of 

 the new conifers tried here, but without any success. It is 



