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the pinetum. It grows well iu this country, and will in my opinion 

 become a good timber-tree. 



Picea pectinata (Common Silver Mr, Loudon). This is a well-known . 

 tree, and one of the most handsome of the kind. It is a native of the 

 Pyrenees, the Caucasus, and portions of the centre of Europe. It grows 

 well on several soils, and in good situations attains a height of from one 

 hundred to one hundred and twenty feet. 



Picea Pichta (Pitch Silver Fir, Loudon). This is a native of Mount 

 Atlas, and resembles the common silver fir very much ; but may be 

 known from it by the leaves being narrower and more thickly set on the 

 branches, and they are not so much of a silvery colour beneath. It is 

 not very hardy at least I have not found it to be so, having, in several 

 instances which have come under my notice, been damaged by spring 

 frosts. 



Picea Pindrow (Tooth-leaved Silver Fir, Splack). This is a native of 

 the Himalayan Mountains, found growing to a height of about one 

 hundred feet, at an elevation of ten thousand feet above the level of 

 the sea. This is a tender plant in the case of spring frosts, and the 

 only way to avoid its being hurt is to plant it on some high-lying and 

 dry situation. 



Picea Pinsapo (Pinsapo Silver Fir, Loudon). This is a native of the 

 mountainous districts of Spain especially in Grenada, on the mountains 

 of Sierra Bermeja and Sierra Nevada at an elevation of from four 

 thousand to six thousand feet. It is a hardy tree, and grows well in 

 this country. We have some growing well in Yorkshire on a calcareous 

 soil on the oolitic formation. The quality of the timber very much 

 resembles that of the common silver fir. It was only introduced into 

 this country in 1838, and therefore we have no large specimens of it ; 

 it is, however, a beautiful tree. It is like Picea Cephalonica, but its 

 leaves are broader, less acute, and on the under side there are fewer rows 

 of stomata. 



PINUS. 



Pinus Austriaca (Austrian Pine, Hb'ss). This is a native of Austria 

 and other countries adjoining it. It is a rapid-growing tree, and does 

 best in a dry soil of some depth, and will succeed in exposed situations, 

 for which it is admirably adapted. There is a fine specimen of it grow- 

 ing on the lawn at My ton Hall, Yorkshire, the seat of Major Stapylton. 

 The soil is a light sandy loam, and dry. There are several on this 

 estate which have an average growth of fourteen inches per annum, 

 growing on a light sandy loam soil with a rocky subsoil. 



Pinus Banksiana (Banks' s Pine, Lambert). This is indigenous along 



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