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with age, a good many picturesque forms. It is very cheap 

 plants, two or three feet high, can be imported from the Eng- 

 lish nurseries, at three or four dollars the hundred and very 

 valuable as a hack tree for planting out disagreeable objects 

 and making screens. There are a good many varieties ; among 

 them are, Variegata, which is with us as hardy as Sylvestris, 

 having a golden stripe or blotch on the leaves ; Pygmea, a 

 dwarf, of two feet or so; Argentea, a silver-leaved variety. 



P. tceda (Loblolly pine). Another of our native trees, 

 s n found from Florida to Virginia, forming a tree 



p. Virginiana. of eighty feet high, with a spreading head. This 

 P. Pennifoiia. j g a j so ca u e( j t h e Frankincense pine, and is dis- 

 tinguished by its delightful aroma. 



P. tuberculata (Tuberculated-cone pine). We have but 

 8yn. lately had this variety, and by its synonymous 



P. Caiifornica. name ( Calif ornica) . It was discovered by Dr. 

 Coulter, immediately on the beach, near Monterey, and after- 

 wards was found on the Santa Cruz mountains, by Mr. Hart- 

 weg. Mr. Jeffrey, also, found it on an elevation of five thou- 

 sand feet. It is said to be slow-growing, reaching a height of 

 forty feet. Our specimens, so far, resemble P. Sabiniana. We 

 have no reports about it, and never saw any other specimens 

 except our own. 



PODOCARPUS. 



This comparatively rare genus obtains its name from two 

 Greek words, irws, a foot, and Kap^of, a fruit ; and is found in 

 Asia, Africa and America, and may be anglicised into the 

 Fruit foot-stalked yew, from which it seems only slightly dif- 

 fering, many varieties being sold as Taxus (Yew), instead of 

 Podocarpus. There are about ninety varieties introduced into 

 the collections on the Continent and in England ; a great many 

 of these are very tender, even abroad, and we do not, as yet, 

 find more than four which promise at all well for this country. 



Of these, P. Japonica (Japan podocarpus), seems the best 

 known as yet, and the hardiest. It is a small tree, from Japan, 

 where it abounds, and is not very unlike Taxus Hibernica (the 

 Irish yew), only with a broader and, perhaps, flatter leaf; our 



