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the coast of North America, at high elevations. I do not consider it a 

 very handsome tree, as it has a thin spare appearance, and the branches 

 are few and far between ; it, however, thrives well in sandy soils. 



Pinus Benthamiana (Benthams Pine, Hartweg). This is a native of 

 California, growing at an elevation of from five hundred to eight hun- 

 dred feet below the line of perpetual snow, and attains a height of two 

 hundred feet. The leaves are from ten to twelve inches long, and of 

 a dark-green colour, and very thick on the branches. This is altogether 

 a noble tree, and should be more cultivated in this country than it is. 

 It has grown well on this estate on a light sandy loam. 



Pinus Cembra (Swiss Stone Pine, Linnseus). This is found growing 

 naturally on the highest mountains of France, in the Alps, and in Italy 

 and Austria, and is there found at an elevation of as much as six 

 thousand feet above sea-level. It was first introduced into this country 

 about 1746. In its native Barters it attains a height of about a hun- 

 dred and twenty feet. In this country the largest specimen may be 

 fully forty feet high ; but as it is a slow grower, it may yet attain large 

 dimensions in our home-plantations. It is a very dark, dense tree, 

 and, in my opinion, a very handsome one. The timber is of a light- 

 brown or reddish colour, and soft. It is from this timber that the Swiss 

 toys and ornaments are made, which are so much admired in this 

 country. The seeds of this tree are eaten by the inhabitants of Siberia 

 and other countries where it grows. In its native quarters it grows on 

 thin soils resting on rock. It is very hardy in this country, -some good 

 specimens of which may be seen at different country seats in England 

 and Scotland. One at Merton Hall, in Nottinghamshire, was in 1860 

 fifty feet high ; and one at Cultoquhey, in Perthshire, was in 1863 

 thirty-five feet high, when about forty years old. 



Pinus excelsa (Nepaul Pine, Wallick). This is a native of the mountains 

 of Nepaul, where it attains a height of from one hundred to one hundred 

 and twenty feet. It was introduced into this country in 1823. It is a 

 hardy tree in this country, and will ere long be more extensively planted 

 than it is now. It grows well in situations not too much exposed. It 

 very much resembles the Pinus strobus, but may be distinguished from 

 it by the round crest of the other, and the leaves are larger than those 

 of the P. strobus. 



Pimis Halepcnsis (Aleppo Pine, Miller). This is a native of the coasts 

 of the Mediterranean, and is found growing in rocky soils, and generally 

 more in the form of a shrub than a tree. It thrives pretty well in this 

 country in poor rocky soils, but, on the whole, it does not make much 

 progress, at least so far as I have observed it. 



Finns Hartwer/ii (Hartley's Pine, Lindley). Indigenous to the 



