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grows thriftily but has not fruited as yet. The 

 Korean pine, Pinus koraensis, and the Sabin pine, 

 Pinus Sabiniana, seem quite at home in Connecticut 

 and so do the Swiss and Italian stone pines, Pinus 

 cembra and Pinus pinea, although the latter needs a 

 warm side hill and some degree of wind break pro- 

 tection. The Armand pine, Pinus Armandi, Pinus 

 Bungeana, and Pinus parviflora are all hardy nut 

 pines, and grow well in the vicinity of New York, 

 but we do not as yet know their fruiting values in 

 this part of the country. There are perhaps thirty 

 different species of conifers of the nut bearing group 

 which are to be tried out more extensively between 

 Quebec and Florida. The seeds of all of these 

 pines may be obtained through dealers and Mr. 

 Thomas J. Lane, of Dresher, Pennsylvania, at my 

 request, has made a feature of obtaining pine seed 

 for experimental purposes. For ordinary eating 

 purposes at present several kinds of pine nuts going 

 by the general name of pifion may be bought in 

 hundred-pound lots from dealers in the southwest. 

 The firm of Vilmorin, Andrieux et Cie, of Metz, 

 Alsace, is a European firm that will furnish nut 

 seeds or seedling trees of anything to be obtained in 

 Europe. The Yokohama Nursery Company, of 

 Yokohama, Japan, will obtain almost any Asiatic 

 species. 



I wrote Mr. D. Hill, of Dundee, Illinois, a spe- 

 cialist in the growing of pine trees, asking if he 

 would interest himself in furnishing nut bearing 

 species. Mr. Hill replied that at one time the idea 



