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eighty or ninety feet. The timber is light, soft, fine grained, and 

 easily worked ; it resists the alternation of dryness and moisture 

 longer than the wood of any other tree growing in America. 



Taxodium distichum (Bald Cypress). — This is a beautiful 

 tree. In its native country (Florida) it grows to about 150 feet 

 high, and from 90 to 100 feet in circumference ; the timber is 

 good, but soft. There is a specimen of this in Chatsworth 80 

 feet high. 



Pinus mitis. — This tree furnishes the Yellow Pine of Com- 

 merce. It has long slender leaves and large cones : it is a very 

 handsome tree. The young shoots are covered with a velvet- 

 coloured bloom. It grows on the poorest soils of America ; 

 grows quick. 



Pinus Fremontiana. — -This is a handsome dwarf-growing 

 Pine, and is well worth cultivation, as its seeds are very nutri- 

 tious and pleasant flavoured, having the taste of Almonds, and 

 the cones are produced in great abundance. It grows on the 

 Sierra Nevada, or great Californian mountains. 



Pinus ponderosa, a very remarkable species, and very orna- 

 mental. The buds are large, pointed, and free from resin. 

 The branches are horizontal at first, but generally drooping at 

 the extremity. 



Pinus Benthamiana, a noble species. It sometimes attains 

 the height of 200 feet, with a stem 28 feet in circumference ; it 

 grows very quick, and the timber is very valuable. It grows on 

 the mountains of Santa Cruz in California. 



Pinus Australis (Syn. P. palustris) has leaves as long as P. 

 longifolia, but of a beautiful brilliant green ; and it has the 

 advantage, not only of being a very ornamental tree, but of pro- 

 ducing better wood than almost any other kinds of North 

 American Pine, the wood being durable, fine-grained, and sus- 

 ceptible of a very high polish. It has also the recommendation 

 of growing well near the sea, where there is only a thin stratum 

 of mould covering the sand. Its wood is that known in com- 

 merce as the red Pine. 



Pinus insignis. — This Pine has been well named, its general 

 appearance being indeed remarkable, and quite different from 

 that of every other species yet introduced. It is a tree of great 

 beauty, with leaves of a rich grass green colour, and grows with 

 great rapidity ; the wood also is good. 



Pinus radiata. — This species is very nearly allied to P. 

 insignis, but the cones are nearly three times as large. It was 

 found growing almost close to the sea beach in California, 

 attaining a height of 100 feet, with a straight stem feathered 



