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found in many portions of California, growing to the height of 

 eighty to one hundred feet. 



P. Jeffreyi (Jeffrey's pine). We doubt if this has been 

 tried at all in this country yet. Our own plants are extremely 

 small, and not yet out. It is a majestic tree, one hundred and 

 fifty feet high, from Northern California. 



P. Lambertiana (Lambert's pine). This superb variety, reach- 

 ing an altitude of one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet, 

 and twenty to sixty feet in girth near the ground, is from the 

 northern parts of California ; and is, without doubt, perfectly 

 hardy in this latitude. Our plants have escaped injury the 

 severe winters of '55 and '56. Our reports from Boston, Flush- 

 ing, New Jersey, and Washington all coincide as to its hardi- 

 hood ; so that we may place this among the " safe trees." Its 

 resemblance to the Pinus strobus (White pine) has been stated 

 as an objection, but it might resemble a worse tree ; besides, 

 we do not think this is quite so. To us it is very distinctive ; and 

 it has long been a great favorite with us for its fine, deep green, 

 and vigorous, healthy habit. It has this merit, to say the least, 

 even if its character is not as marked as many of the less ro- 

 bust pines. 



P. laricio (the Corsican pine). This tree with many syn- 

 Syn. onyms, is a native, as its name im- 



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Europe, Greece, and Spain ; and is the 

 great tree upon Mount ^Etna, growing rapidly to a height of 

 eighty to one hundred and thirty feet. It is quite as hardy as 

 Lambertiana, or Austriaca, all over the country, having some- 

 what the robust habit of the latter, only a less vivid green. 

 Some of our specimens of this variety made leading shoots last 

 year of five feet. 



P. L Calabrica (the Calabrian pine), P. I Caramanica (the 

 Caramanian pine), P. L pygmcea (the Dwarf Corsican), and 

 P. I. contorta (the Twisted Corsican), are only varieties. 



P. leiophylla (the Smooth-leaved Mexican pine). A large 

 tree, with an irregular open head, vertical branches, and droop- 

 ing foliage, growing sixty to one hundred feet high ; from the 

 mountains of Angangueo, in Mexico, and is called by the na- 

 tives " Ocote Chino," from its abundance of resin, and being 



