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been introduced into the woodlands in such quantity as in 

 certain places to form the ultimate or standing crop. In 

 North Wales, on one of the Snowdon range of hills, I have 

 planted the Corsican pine in great quantity. The planta- 

 tion was, for the greater part, fully exposed to the dreaded 

 south-westerly wind, which at times blows hard and long, 

 and sweeps the hillsides with terrific fury ; yet, under such 

 conditions, the Corsican pine has done remarkably well in 

 fact, proved itself to be well suited for planting at high 

 altitudes on our English hillsides. Even at the highest 

 point of the woodlands in question, this pine has thriven in 

 a manner that is quite surprising, and thrown its stoutest 

 branches out into the very teeth of the blast, and that 

 where hardly a hardwood tree could survive, and even the 

 Scotch fir shrank from the cold and almost unceasing storms. 

 Other notable instances of how well the Corsican does on 

 exposed ground and high altitudes might be pointed out- 

 such as at Blair Athol, in Perthshire, at 700 ft., where it is 

 thriving amazingly ; and again in Yorkshire, one of the most 

 barren and wind-swept of English counties, where in parts, 

 it grows with a luxuriance that is almost unparalleled in any 

 other part of Britain. The timber produced by the Corsican 

 pine in this country is strong, tough, elastic, very resinous, 

 and easily worked ; this is speaking of trees of fully fifty 

 years' growth. It thrives well on gravelly soil, some of the 

 largest specimens of the tree in this country growing along 

 the margin of a disused gravel-pit. 



It may be said that the Corsican pine is perfectly hardy, 

 peculiarly well suited for planting in exposed situations, a 

 rapid and valuable timber-producer, a tree that is cheaply 

 and easily raised from seed, and one of the most non-exacting 

 conifers as regards choice of soil Hint could be named- all 

 qualities of tin- hiirliest value in a timber-producing tree and 

 a combination that is rarely found in an\ ther species. 



In France extensive plantations of tin ('orsiran have been 

 formed, while it lia- also hern introduced extensively into 

 the State forests by the Prussian Government. 



The Weymouth Pine ( P. titrolrn*). \\hether viewed in an 

 ornamental or economic aspect, must be considered as 



