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lieve that it might be naturalized in the climate of the middle 

 states, and think it would become one of the most valuable 

 additions to our catalogue of evergreen trees. The Loblolly 

 Pine, {P. Tada,) of Virginia, has also fine foliage, six inches 

 or more in length, and grows to 80 feet in height. Besides 

 these already named, the southern states produce the Pond 

 Pine, {P. sei'otina,) which resembles considerably the Pitch 

 Pine, with, however, longer leaves, and the Table Mountain 

 Pine, [P. Pungens,) which grows 40 or 50 feet high, and is 

 found exclusively upon that part of the Alleghany range. 



We must not forget in this enumeration of the Pines of 

 North America, the magnificent species of California, and the 

 north-west coast. The most splendid of these was discovered 

 in Northern California, and named the Pinus Lambertiana, 

 in honour of that distinguished botanist A. B. Lambert, Esq. 

 of London, the author of a superb work on this genus of trees. 

 It is undoubtedly one of the finest evergreens in the world, 

 averaging from 100 to 200 feet in heig-ht. Its discoverer, 

 Mr. Douglass; the indefatigable collector of the Horticultural 

 Society of London, measured one of these trees that had 

 blown down, which was two hundred and fifteen feet in 

 length, and fifty-seven feet nine inches in circumference, at 

 three feet from the root, while at one hundred and thirty-four 

 feet from the root, it was seventeen feet five inches in girth. 

 This, it is stated, is by no means the maximum height of the 

 species. The cones of the Lambert Pine measure sixteen 

 inches in length ; and the seeds are eaten by the natives of 

 those regions, either roasted or made into cakes, after being 

 pounded. The other species found by Mr. Douglass, grow 

 naturally in the mountain valleys of the western coast, and 

 several of them, as the Pimis grandisj and nobilis, are almost 

 as lofty as the foregoing sort ; while Pinus monticola and 

 P. Sabiniana, are highly beautiful in their forms, and ele- 

 gant in foliage. The seeds of nearly all these sorts, were first 

 sent to the garden of the London Horticultural Society, where 

 many of the young trees are now growing; and we hope that 

 they will soon be introduced into our plantations, which they 



