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its foliage and cones. It attains heights of from one hundred to two 

 hundred feet, hut its wood is inferior to that of the prototype when 

 grown under the same conditions. When from California or North Wes- 

 tern hahitats, it is sufficiently hardy for the climate of Britain, where 

 its only use is to add number and variety to a pinetum or arboretum. 

 PiNUS La^ATSONII: Lawson's Pine. 



This, Mr. Gordon states, is "a distinct kind, having the leaves 

 mostly in threes, but sometimes in fours, six inches long : cones from 

 two to two-and-a-half inches long, and one-and-a-half inches broad near 

 the base, very much resembling those of Finns Sylvestris." I merely 

 add that it was discovered by that impostor Roezl, in Mexico. And 

 that if the describer tells truth it may be something distinct ; but as 

 yet I have not seen a new species in Pinus Lmcsonii. Although I 

 have more than once seen it off"ered, I have not yet obtained it, but 

 have often been supplied with plants and specimens of old Pines for 

 this said-to-be new Mexican one. 



PiNUS LeiOPHYLLA: The Smooth-Leaved Pine. 

 This has soft, slender, smooth, drooping, pale glaucous green foliage, 

 from three to six inches long, with the leaves generally five in a sheath, 

 and thickly disposed on the tips of the branches. The cones are from 

 one-and-a-half to three inches long, and from one to one-and-a-half 

 inches broad near the base, on short footstalks, depressed at bottom, 

 and ovate at top. It is found on the Mexican mountains at an eleva- 

 tion of seven thousand feet. Its timber is hard and resinous, and it 

 attains heights of from fifty to one hundred feet. Although it will 

 live and grow in the best soils, and warmest localities, with us here in 

 the South of England, it is too tender and delicate for cold latitudes 

 and exposed situations, and is of no value in this country, unless for 

 increasing the number and variety of our Pines. 

 PiNUS LiNDLEYANA: Lindley's Pine. 



This is one of the Montezumae forms of the large or robust-leaved 

 Mexican Pine. It is a bushy, strong-branched, tolerably hardy, inter- 

 esting curiosity in a pinetum or arboretum ; having the leaves gene- 

 rally five in a sheath, from six to nine inches long, strong and sharp- 

 pointed ; when young somewhat glaucous, and deep green in colour ; 

 cones from five to eight inches long, and from one-and-a-half to three 

 inches broad at the swell, slightly curved and tapering to a point, 

 attaining heights of from twenty-five to fifty feet. 

 PiNUS LlAVEANA: La Llave's Pine. 

 This is another Mexican : a quasi-Pinea, introduced in 1830, a 



