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the coldest parts of Mt. Libanus, but according to Professor Martyn, 

 more trees are to be found in England at the present lime than on 

 its original site. As it is scarcely yet known as an ornamental tree 

 in this country, we certainly do not know of an object better worth 

 the attention of the arboriculturist. 



We observe in foreign periodicals that several magnificent hardy 

 individuals belonging to this section of trees, have been lately intro- 

 duced into Europe, and we hope before long they will find their 

 way to the hands of our cultivators. Among the most remarkable, 

 we may mention a splendid new genus of pine (Pinus Lambertiana) 

 lately found in northern California. The discoverer, Mr. D. Doug- 

 las, botanical collector to the London Horticultural Society, de- 

 scribes it as growing from one hundred and fifty to two hundred 

 feet in height, producing cones sixteen inches in length. He mea- 

 sured a specimen two hundred and fifteen feet long and fifty-seven 

 in circumference.* Several other specimens of this genus, of much 

 grandeur and beauty, are but lately introduced into cultivation, and 

 which our present limits will barely permit us to enumerate. Pinus 

 Douglasii, P. monticola, P. grandis, are immense trees from the 

 northwest coast of America ; Pinus deodara [Cedrus deodara, Rox.], 

 from Himalaya, P. taurica, from Asiatic Turkey, and P. Laricio, 

 from the mountains of Corsica, are spoken of as being highly orna- 

 mental ; Araucaria imbricata, a beautiful evergreen tree of South 

 America, and Cupressus pendula, the weeping 6ypress of the Chi- 

 nese, are extremely elegant are found to withstand the climate of 

 Britain, and would probably also endure that of this country. 



We cannot close these remarks without again adverting to the 

 infinite beauty which may be produced by a proper use of this fine 

 material of nature. Many a dreary and barren prospect may be 

 rendered interesting many a natural or artificial deformity hidden, 

 and the effect of almost every landscape may be improved, simply by 

 the judicious employment of trees. The most fertile countries would 

 appear but a desert without them, and the most picturesque scenery 

 in every part of the globe has owed to them its highest charms. 

 Added to this, by recent improvements in the art of transplanting,! 



* Trans. Linnsean Soc., vol. 15, p. 497. 

 f Vide Sir Henry Stuart on Planting. 



