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are two years in acquir- 

 ing their full growth ; 

 they are at first upright, 

 and do not begin to /^ 

 droop till the second V 

 \ear. When vonng, they ^ . V~ 

 have a very taper figure. f*t., ^ 

 When ripe, they are -V*---, 

 about I 1 in. in circum- 

 ference at the thickest 

 part, and vary from I^in. 

 to 16 in. in length. The 

 scales are lax, rounded ^ 

 at the apex, and per- g* 

 fectly ilestitnte of pric- ^ 

 kles : the seeds larne, 

 S lines loin:, and 1 broad ; $'< 

 oval ; and, like those of i . 

 the P. 7'inea, their ker- *>' 

 nels are sweet, and ver\ 

 pleasant to the taste. 

 The wing is membranaceous, of a dolabrifonn figure, anil fuliginous colour, 

 about twice as long as the seed; it has an innumerable quantity of minute 

 sinuous vessels, filled with a crimson substance, and formmii most beautiful 

 microscopic objects. The embrvo has 1^ or I.'i cotyledons. The whole 

 tree produces an abundance of' pure amber-coloured resin. Its timber is 

 white, soft, and li^ht ; it abounds in turpentine reservoir-; and its specific 

 gravity ha- been ascertained, from a specimen sen. to Kngland, to be O'-ili.'s. 

 The annual layers are very narrow : in the above specimen, there were o(i 

 in the space of I 1 , in. next the outside. The specie.-, to which this pine is 

 most nearly allied is, undoubtedly, /'. .Vtrohus, from which, however, it is ex- 

 tremely different in station, habit, and parts of fructification." (J)on^l. in 

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(ii'n^niplniy lltstnrit, i\r. This -pccics " covers lame districts about 100 miles 

 from the ocean, in hit. I.'i N ., and extends as far to the south as 40." It first 

 came under the notice of Dou^la- in Aliens;, Is -.'.>, while at tin- he. id waters 

 of the .Multnoniah river. In October, I ^<>, continues Douglas, "it was my 

 Ljood fortune to meet with it be\ond a raiii^e of mountains ninnim: in a south- 

 western direction from the Hock\ Mountains towards the sea, and terminating 

 at the Cajti- < >i ford of Van com i r. It Lirow - sparin^K upon low lull-, and the 1 

 undulating conntr\ ea-t of the raiii^e of mountain- just mentioned, \s here the 

 -oil con-i-t s cut ireh of pure -and, and in appi arance i- incapable of supporting 

 vegetation. Here it attains its ^I'eatest si/e, and perfect.- its fruit inmost 

 abundance. The trees do not form dense forests, a- most of the other pines 

 w Inch clothe the I 'ace of North-west America ; but , like I', resin o- a, which grows 

 amoiiLT them, the\ are -cattcred SIIIL;|\ over th 

 plain-., and may be considered to form a ort of 

 connecting link bet wei MI the gloom \ forests of the 

 north and the more tropical-looking \cninre of 

 ( alitornia." ( I/ml., p. Ill's.) I 'hints w ere raised 

 of this species in the Horticultural Societ\\ (iar- 

 (ien in I s '-7, and distributed in the following \ ( ar ; 

 but it is remarkable that the greater part of them 

 h;:\e -nice died, Lieut raiK when the\ \\ere about 

 1 ft. or .t it. in hei'jht. Notwithstanding this, tin- 

 specie- doe- not appear to be mm h more tender 

 than /'. .S'trobu-. Tin- larue-t exist ing plant that *$$% 

 we know ofi^ in the garden of William Wells, KMJ., at Kedleaf, where, having 

 b(cn -own in |s^!, it is loft. X in. high, (me in the ('hiswick (Jarden, sown 

 th<: same year, and of which//". :^^(i7. i- j poi trait, i.-, onl\ (> ft. <i in. high. 



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