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Pliytolacca dioica. BELHAMBRA. 



A partial leaf shedder. This tree has been extravagantly 

 puffed for sale purposes* It is a semi-tropical tree, and 

 rarely does well in the Colony, where at best it is an 

 unshapely mass of green with a stem like a cabbage stalk. 

 Wood and fruit worthless. In the semi-tropical interior it 

 might perhaps furnish a quick- growing, shady tree. 



THE PINES. 



These should be sown in situ (where they are to grow) 

 whenever possible. But only Cluster-pine is sown in 

 situ on any large scale in Cape Colony. Pines can hardly 

 be sown too thickly. Most Pine seeds are greedily eaten 

 by birds and mice. If seed be expensive, or the locality 

 hard to plant, nursery plants must be resorted to. Nursery 

 Pines are raised in beds or boxes as indicated for 

 Gums. Pines do best in the sandy soils and mild climates 

 of the S.W. districts. Pines may be transplanted with 

 open roots (like cabbages) from nursery beds in the S.W. 

 districts, where there are certain winter rains. Elsewhere, 

 tin plants are usually safest. Only the Jerusalem -pine is 

 hardy everywhere and able to stand the drought and heat 

 of the plains of the interior. The Insignis-pine does best 

 in cold damp mountainous districts, where also the Scotch- 

 pine and Corsican-pine may be planted. The Cluster-pine 

 is the forest tree of the Cape Peninsula and South. 

 Nine-tenths of the wood used in the world, it has been 

 computed, comes from the Pines or the Conifer family. 

 Where Pines grow well the tree-planter should never lose 

 sight of them, not only on account of their usefulness 

 themselves, but for their value to mix with other trees and 

 form close clean plantations. 



Pinus australis. PITCH-PINE. 



This is the true Pitch-pine of the Southern States of 

 America, and thus a very valuable tree. It ought to thrive 



