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ARBORETUM AND FRUTJCETUM. 



PART III. 



P}nus sylvtstris in France. Near Paris, at VerrieTes, 20 years planted, it is 32 ft. high; and a 

 pyramidal variety, of the same age, is 18 ft. high. In Brittany, at Barres, 12 years planted, it is 14 ft. 

 high. At Colombey, near Metz, 70 years planted, it is 99 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft. Gin. In 

 the Botanic Garden at Avranches, 40 years planted, it is 40 ft. high. In the Park of Clervaux, near 

 Chat Meraut, 33 years planted, it is 69 ft. high. 



Plnus sylvtstris in other Countries. In Bavaria, in the Botanic Garden at Munich, 24 years planted, 

 it is 24ft. high. In Austria, near Vienna, at Briick on the Leytha, 60 years planted, it is 90ft. 

 high. In Sweden, in the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 54 ft. high. In Russia, near St Petersburgh, 

 on the small island of Sosnovy Rosha, it is 77 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 

 16 ft. In Italy, at Monza, 65 years planted, it is 60 ft. high. 



Commercial Statistics. In the London nurseries, one year's seedling plants 

 of the common variety are Is. 6d. a thousand ; two years' seedlings, 3s. Gd. 

 a thousand ; plants one year transplanted, 10s. a thousand; and two years 

 transplanted, 20s. a thousand. At Bollwyller, single plants transplanted are 

 3 cents each ; and at New York, 50 cents. Plants of the Highland red pine 

 are, in London, Is. 9d. a thousand ; and at Grigor's Nursery, Forres, N. B., 

 1*. 6d. a thousand; and of the pin de Hagueneau, at Bollwyller, 8 cents each. 

 Seeds of the common Scotch pine are, in London, 2s. per Ib ; of the High- 

 land pine, 2s. 6d. perlb.; and seeds of the pin de Hagueneau, at Bollwyller, 

 are 1 franc 50 cents per Ib. 



* 1 2. P. (s.) PUMI'LIO H&nke. The dwarf, or Mountain, Pine. 



Identification. Hasnke Beob., 68. ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 495. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t 2. ; Cam. Hort., 



127. ; Clus. Pan., 15. ; Hall. Heir., No. 1668. y : Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 314. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 



1836 ; Baum. Cat, ed. 1835. 

 5ynonym.es. P. sylvstris montana y Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 366. ; P. B. humilis y Neal. Cat. 



Hort. Blackb., 50. ; P. conis erctis Town. lust. 586., Scheuchz. It., 460., Du Ham. Arb., 2. p. 126.; 



P. humilis, &c., Town. Inst., 586; P. suedticus seu carpftticus Ungarisch Mag., Sterbande, 38. ; 



Pinaster cbnis erectis Bauh. Pin., 492. ; P. tatarica Mill, in Herb. Banks. ; P. p. montanus Park., 



1537. f. 8. ; P. quartus austrlacus Clus. Hist., 1. p. 32. ; Pin nain, Fr. ; Krumholz, Ger 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 2. ; our Jig. 2061., to our usual scale, and figs. 2057. and 2058., 



of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., S[-c. Branches generally recumbent. Leaves short, stiff, some- 

 what twisted ; thickly distributed over the branches, with long, lacerated, 



2058 



woolly, white sheaths. Cones, 

 when young, erect ; when ma- 

 ture, pointing outwards. Buds 

 (fig. 2057.) ovate, blunt, resi- 

 nous. Leaves (fig. 2058.) from 

 2 in. to 2^ in. long; sheaths, 

 at first, from in. to If in. long, 

 white and lacerated ; afterwards 

 falling off or shrinking to in. 



gQgy or in. long, and becoming 

 dark brown or black. Cones 



(d) from 1 in. to 2 in. long, and 



from in. to 1 in. broad ; reddish or 



dark purplish brown when young, and 



of a dull brown when mature. Scales 



(b) and seeds (a) resembling those 



of P. sylvestris, but smaller. Cotyledons 5 to 7. A large spreading 



bush, or low tree; a native of Europe, on mountains. Introduced in 



1779; flowering and ripening its cones at the same time as the Scotch 



pine. Fig. 2063. in p. 2190. is a portrait of a bush at Dropmore, which, 



in 1837, was 12 ft. high and 25 ft. in diameter. 



Varieties. 



* f P. (s.~)p. 2 rubrfsflora has red flowers, but does not differ in any other 



respect from P. (s.) pumilio. There is a bush of it at Dropmore 

 above 12 ft. high, and covering a space 21 ft. in diameter. 



* 1 P. (s.) p. 3 Fischeri Sooth, Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, Lawson's Man., 



p. 333. Only small grafted plants of this variety are in the country, 

 it not having been introduced till about 1832. In the shoots and 

 foliage, it bears so strong a resemblance to P. (s.) pumilio, that we 

 doubt very much if it even merits to be considered as a variety of 



