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tion of these trees at Brest, in the north of France, a climate very 

 much like our own. The soil is a light sandy loam, poor and thin. 

 Yet the trees, fully exposed, or sheltered only by a small belt of, 

 pines, have proved per- 

 fectly hardy, resisting 

 without injury, even the 

 rigorous winter of 1829- 

 30, when the thermome- 

 ter was several degrees 

 below zero of Fahren- 

 heit. " The largest now 

 measures about twenty 

 feet in height. Its cir- 

 cles or tiers of branches 

 are five in number, dis- 

 posed at perfectly equal 

 distances, and closely re- 

 sembling, in effect, a 

 magnificent pyramid. 

 The stem, the branches, 

 and their shoots, are all 



Completely clothed with F *S- 5. The Chili Pine, or Araucania-Tree. 



leaves of a fine deep green ; these leaves are regularly and symmet- 

 rically disposed, and are remarkable in their being bent backwards 

 at their extremities, giving the effect, as well as the form, of the 

 antique girandole." 



Mr. Buist, the well known Philadelphia nurseryman, who has 

 already distributed a good many specimens of this tree in the United 

 States, informed us last season, that it is entirely hardy in Philadel- 

 phia ; and our correspondent, Dr. Valk, of Flushing, who has in his 

 garden a specimen three feet high, writes us that it has borne the 

 past winter without protection, and apparently uninjured. 



We may therefore reasonably hope that this unique South 

 American tree, of most singular foliage, striking symmetry, and gi- 

 gantic eatable fruit, will also take its place in our ornamental plan- 

 tations, along with the cedar of Lebanon and the Deodar cedax, 

 two of the grandest trees of the Asian world. 



