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tribe, and is indigenous to Corsica and Spain, and along the shores of 

 the Mediterranean, and there it attains a height of about a hundred and 

 fifty feet. It is a fast grower. The leaves are long and thinly set on the 

 branches. This is a hardy tree ; and having been introduced into this 

 country in 1759, or more than one hundred years ago, good specimens 

 are plentiful, and an opinion can now be formed as to its timber qualities. 

 I arn of opinion that it will become one of our most valuable timber- trees. 

 It grows well in different soils, if not too retentive. There are some 

 growing on a light sandy loam on this estate which are making annual 

 growths of from fifteen to eighteen inches. 



Pinus macrocarpa (Large-coned Pine, Lindley). This is indigenous 

 to North America, especially in the north - west, where it attains a 

 height of about one hundred and twenty feet. The leaves and cones are 

 of great length, the former being often fourteen inches and the latter 

 one foot in length. It is quite hardy, and grows well on soils of a light 

 loam or sandy loam description. The foliage is of a sea-green colour. 



Pinus Mugho (Mugho's Pine). This, I feel assured, is a useful tree for 

 planting on exposed situations. In its native quarters it grows on cold 

 and bleak situations on mountains, and there assumes the size of a con- 

 siderable tree from thirty to forty feet high. It very much resembles 

 the common Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris}. 



Pinus muricata (Bishop's Pine, Don). -This variety has been introduced 

 from California, where it is indigenous to the mountains as far up as an 

 elevation of three thousand feet above sea-level. It is a handsome tree, 

 and grows to a height of from forty to fifty feet. The colour is a very 

 rich vivid green. It is making fair progress on this estate (Wass) in a 

 light loam soil. 



Pinus pinaster (Cluster Pine, Solander). This is a native of the 

 mountains and coasts of India, China, Japan, and on several mountain- 

 ous regions, and on the coasts of Europe. It reaches a height of about 

 sixty feet when grown in dry sandy soils ; but the situation must be 

 dry, and the subsoil free and open. The foliage is a bright green, and 

 usually about eight or ten inches in length. It is an invaluable tree 

 for planting along the coasts. This tree has a large tap-root and very 

 few fibrous roots, hence there is some difficulty in transplanting it. It 

 is a rapid grower, and the timber is soft, and not of any great value, but 

 it is valuable to plant on exposed situations for shelter. If planted 

 along the coast, other and more valuable trees can be reared immediately 

 behind it, as it stands the sea-breeze well 



Along the west coast of Scotland the pinaster has been extensively 

 planted, where it has succeeded well, and shelter has been given by it 

 where no other kind of trees would have thriven. It is a slow grower 



