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me, In default of a better, preferable for most cases, and that more, 

 especially when it is proposed to plant or sow the pin sylvestre in 

 poor dry lands, whether sandy or chalk." 



Of the ;5m sylvestre du Maine, of which there is a clamp In four 

 rows planted in 1830, he says : 



** The pin sylvestre does not exist in Maine but as a cultivated tree, 

 and the plantations of it which are there met with have necessarily 

 diversified origins, and do not constitute a local race. But the 

 desire of multiplying the points of comparison led me to plant one 

 lot of them, for the seed producing, which I am indebted to the 

 obliging disposition of M. V^tillard. 



" These pines belong to the race of Ardfeche and of Geneva, but they 

 present a very large proportion of good, and of pretty good, trees, and 

 the bark is more frequently of a pretty decided reddish grey. It is 

 a good type of the race, apparently improved in Maine by eucoessive 

 selection of individuals." 



Of the pin sylvestre, raised from the seed of a specimen with 

 spreading branches, existing at Verri^res, of which there were four 

 rows planted from 1832-1835, he says, in reference to the account 

 given of his design in planting these, and others of a pyramidal form, 

 that this also has produced many trees like the parent. Those of 

 this lot have the decided characters of the Geneva pines ; the branches 

 of almost all are horizontal, the bark grey, or very little reddish ; 

 they are further pretty vigorous, and are of the number of those 

 which promise to be the best of this series. 



Under the fifth head, the Thick-set horizontal pine, he classes a 

 pine from Briangon, and a Scotch fir obtained from Mr. Lawson, 

 of Edinburgh. 



Writing of the Briangon pine of the High Alps, of which he had 

 planted three rows in 1826, he says : "The tree, which constitutes 

 by itself the fifth section, was given to me by M. Faure (of Briangon), 

 who had the kindness to get seed gathered for me, as being the Pinus 

 suffix of the Brian gonuais. This should have been — if Duhamel be 

 not misled in the application of the name — a P. muglio. But, be 

 it a mistake of Duhamel, or of the men who had gathered the cones, 

 the pines produced from this seed are true Sylvestres. On this point I 

 have no regrets, for I am thus supplied in my collection, with the two 

 extreme types (this and the elongated Riga pine), which exist In 



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