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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



but it will succeed in any soil, provided it is loose ; and it even loves a 

 moist soil, if not too wet. It thrives best in situations having a southern 

 aspect. This pine was first introduced into Britain by Mr. Lawson of 

 Edinburgh, in 1835. The seeds were sown in that year, on light sandy 

 soil ; and, at the end of the first season, the plants were twice as large 

 as those of P. sylvestris sown at the same time in the same soil ; and 

 they had remarkably large deep-penetrating roots. (Man., p. 339.) 



Properties and Uses. The sap wood of P. austriaca is said by Hoss to 

 be of a whitish yellow, and the heart wood of a rusty yellow ; the latter 

 being very resinous, strong, and tough. It is much valued in Austria, when 

 kept dry ; and is said to surpass even the larch in resisting the injurious 

 effects of water, or of alternate moisture and dryness. It is used by joiners, 

 coopers, &c., and makes excellent fuel. When burned, the flames, on account 

 of the resin contained in the wood, produce a very dense black smoke ; and, 

 where lampblack is the object, it is very productive of that substance. 

 The wood is preferred to that of the beech for charcoal ; and the roots afford 

 splinters for torches. Among all the native pines of Austria, this one is said 

 to afford the greatest quantity of turpentine. 



Commercial Statistics. Price of plants, in Lawson's Nursery, Edinburgh, 

 10s. a thousand for one-year's seedlings, and 20s. for two-years' seedlings. 



1 9. P. (L.) PALLAS/,*^ Lamb. Pallas's, or the Tartarian, Pine. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., I. t. 5. ; Lawson's Manual, p. 339. 



Synonymes. P. taurica Hort.; P. tatarica'.in the Hammersmith Nursery in 1797 ; P. marftima Pail. 



Jnd. Taur. (according to a specimen in Mr. Lambert's herbarium) ; P. Pinea Habl. Taur., p. 97. ; 



P. halepensis Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cnuc., 2. p. 408. (exclusive of the synonymes, except those of Pall. 



and Habl.) ; P. Laricio Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. Suppl., 3. p. 623. (exclusive of the synonymes, except 



those of Pall, and Habl.) ; Tzaam in the Tartar language. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 5. ; our Jigs. 2087. and 2089., to our usual scale; figs. 208fi. and 



2088., of the natural size, from living specimens received from A. Lambert, Esq., taken from his 



trees at Boy ton ; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char., Sec. Leaves in pairs, very long, erect, rigid, channeled ; sheaths 

 20S6 very short. Crest of the 



anthers roundish, convex 



repand. Cone ovate-oblong 



oftencurved. Scales slight 



ly tuberculate, and termi- 

 nated by a very small. 



prickle. (Lamb.) Bud (fig. 



2086.) fin. to l^in. long, 



and from in to 1 in. broad ; 



ovate, and pointed, with 



the sides concave, like those 



of P. Larfcio, but much 



larger. Leaves (see fig. 

 2088.) from 4 in. to 7 in. or 8 in. in 

 length ; sheath from \ in. to in. in length. 

 Cones from 4 in. to 5 in. in length, and 

 from lin. to If in. in breadth at the 

 widest part ; ovate-oval, acuminate, hori- 

 zontal in their direction, and slightly in- 

 curved at the extremities, which point 

 downwards. Scales as in those of P. La- 

 ricio, but larger. (From specimens re- 

 ceived from Mr. Lambert, White Knights, 

 and the Glasnevin Garden, in August, 1837.) 



Varieties. We can readily conceive that P. L. Pallasunta, like every other va- 

 riety of P. Laricio, is liable to sport ; and, accordingly, of the trees pos- 

 sessed by Mr. Lambert, one has the cones straight and short, and another 

 long and crooked. In the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, there are two 

 trees of P. Pallaswwa, which were planted in the year 1797, and are now 



