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seeds, dark in colour, and furnished with an ample wing-appendage. 

 Like most of the Pines, it takes two years to mature its cones and 

 seeds. This Pine is perfectly hardy, and of very rapid growth, but it 

 has a tendency to make autumnal gi'owths, which is its only defect as 

 an ornamental tree in this country, for it cannot be called a profitable 

 timber-tree : it should, therefore, never be planted in very low-l}T.ng 

 places, where there is a close and humid atmosphere, but in loamy, or 

 sharp sandy soils, and well exposed situations where sun and air 

 abound ; when from its free, unformal, and irregular branched habit of 

 growth, and its golden grassy-green fohage, it would form a loveable 

 object, a living statue which would materially increase the grandeur of 

 the richest landscape, and add much to the scenic effect of any picture, 

 in arboretum, park, or plantation. 



PiNUS JefFREYI: Jeffrey's Pine. 



Discovered in and introduced from California by Jeffrey, after whom 

 it has been named. I have only seen and only possess seeds, seed- 

 lings, and young plants of it. Its leaves are from three to nine inches 

 long, generally three in a sheath, somewhat twisted at base, keeled on 

 their inner face, rounded at back, and very sharp-pointed, and of a 

 rich deep green in colour. The branches are somewhat irregularly dis- 

 posed, slender, rather declining though horizontal, and slightly pointing 

 upwards at their extremities ; buds few, short, stout, pointed, imbri- 

 cated, and resinous ; the bark yellowish-green, but at first reddish, or 

 of a violet green in colour. Its juices and secretions are strongly 

 scented with a balsamic odour. Young plants of it have stood unpro- 

 tected with us, here, in South Hants, for the past half-dozen years ; 

 and it seems, if not a species, at least a quasi-species, inasmuch as 

 young plants of it appear to be something distinct for a Califomian 

 Pine ; though nearly related to Ponderosa. 



PiNUS KORAIENSIS : The Corean Pine. 



This is one of the Cjflasi- Ce7nbra-Sfrobus kinds about which so much 

 conceited conjectural matter has lately been published. I merely here 

 allow its name a place, remarking that it is of no economic value for its 

 timber, and of but little use as an ornamental tree, unless for adding 

 one more to the number, and slightly increasing the variety of a large 

 collection of Pinaeese. 



PiNUS LamberTIANA: Lambert's Pine. 



This is another quasi-species of old Strobus ; introduced from Xortli 

 America in 1827, but it has more recently been found in California 

 and Mexico ; though in each country somewhat altered in the size of 



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