FEBRUARY 51 



After all, there is no piue nobler than our native Scots 

 or so beautiful in maturity. See those splendid fellows in 

 the Duke of Ath oil's park at Dunkeld, girthing thirteen 

 feet at four feet from the ground, and soaring fifty feet 

 clean before the stem throws out a branch, clothed in 

 that ruddy bark which distinguishes this species from 

 every other conifer except the Japanese. 



