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beyond Chambersburg, near the Juniata, and on the scrubby ridges beyond 

 Bedford, at the distance of about 200 miles from Philadelphia. In this part 

 of Pennsylvania, it is called the scrub pine; and it is seen wherever the soil is 

 composed of argillaceous schistus, and is consequently poor. The poorness 

 of the soil on which it grows is attested by the decrepid appearance of the 

 scarlet, red, black, white, and rock-chestnut oaks, among which it grows. 

 Michaux never saw it northward of the river Hudson ; and neither in the^Caro- 

 linas, nor in Georgia. According to the Hortus Kcwensis, it was cultivated in 

 1739, by Miller; but, though it is a singular-looking, and in our opinion most 

 interesting, tree, it is not common in British collections. The finest trees of 

 it which we have seen are at Pain's Hill, where it is 40 ft. high, with a trunk 

 1 ft. 6 in. in diameter ; and at Dropmore and White Knights, at both which 

 places, it bears abundance of cones. Fig. 2071. is a portrait of one of the 

 three Dropmore trees, which, after being 17 years planted, was, in 1837, 

 25 ft. high, with a head covering a space 24 ft. in diameter. There are three 

 fine trees at White Knights, from 25 ft. to 30 ft. high, which have retained 

 their cones ten or twelve years ; and many of the shoots of which appear to be 

 as amply furnished with cones as leaves. A tree at Syon is 14 ft. high. There 

 is a low, crooked, pendulous-branched tree of this species in the arboretum at 

 Kew, about 10 ft. high ; one at Messrs. Loddiges's 5 ft. high ; and one of the 

 same height, which has been 7 years planted, in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden. In France, according to the Nouveau Du Hamel, there is a tree 20 ft. 

 high in the gardens of the Trianon ; and M. Hericaut de Thury has several 

 trees which produced cones at the age of 20 years, and have since continued 

 to do so every year. 



Properties and Uses. The wood of the Jersey pine, according to Michaux, 

 is of little use, except for fuel, on account of its small dimensions, and the 

 large proportion of sap wood which it contains ; but, as it abounds in resin, 

 tar is obtained from it. Kalm mentions, in his Travels in North America, 

 that, in the heat of summer, cattle resort for shade to this tree, in preference 

 to any other, even though their foliage were much thicker. He saw cattle 

 studiously singling out P. inops in order to get under its branches ; probably 



