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from their rapid growth, the excellent quality of their 

 timber as tested in their native regions, and their appa- 

 rent adaptation to our climate, promise hereafter to be 

 highly advantageous and of great national importance, 

 while others, though affording a timber of less value, are, 

 nevertheless, deserving at least of limited culture for the 

 beauty and symmetry of their form and the ornamental 

 effect they produce. Pinetums, or collections of the Ab'ie- 

 tinte planted by themselves, are now numerous throughout 

 the kingdom, and have become an object of great interest 

 to dendrologists. Among the first established and in 

 which the trees have now arrived at a considerable size, 

 is that at Dropmore, near Windsor, formed by the late 

 Lord Granville in 1810. In Bedfordshire, at Flitwick 

 House, the seat of T. Brooks, Esq., the Pinetum is rich 

 in species. In Cornwall, at Carclew, that of Sir J. Lemon 

 is also very extensive. In Northumberland, the first estab- 

 lished and richest Pinetum is that of Sir C. L. M. Monck, 

 Bart., at Belsay Castle, but others have since been formed, 

 among which we may mention one at Howick Hall, the 

 seat of Earl Grey, which we lately inspected, and where 

 we found many of the rarer kinds growing very luxuri- 

 antly. In Scotland, also, several Pinetums have been 

 formed, some of which are rich in species, and in others 

 they grow with a luxuriance which shows the soil to be 

 congenial and adapted to their habit. 



Much, however, as we admire Pinetums, and glad as 

 we are to see them encouraged and becoming more nu- 

 merous throughout the kingdom, we are still more anxious 

 that the culture of the Abletince, should not be confined to the 

 restricted limits of the portion of ground set apart for this 

 particular purpose, but that further experiments should 

 be generally made by large landed proprietors, to ascertain, 



