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— by planting the different species introduced, in a variety 

 of soils and situations and at different elevations, where 

 they are likely to grow most vigorously and soonest to 

 turn to profitable account, — facts which we can scarcely 

 expect to determine from examples grown in Pinetums, 

 where the soil and local situation can scarcely be supposed 

 to be suitable to all the different species assembled within 

 their bounds. Such a plan we are now pursuing upon a 

 limited scale, and we strongly recommend its adoption 

 by those who possess extensive estates, which afford a 

 variety of surface and soils of various quality, more par- 

 ticularly directing their attention to those species which, 

 in their own regions, evince a hardihood of constitution 

 and yield a valuable timber, among which we may par- 

 ticularize the Pinus uncinata of Captain Widdrington, 

 P. Hispanica, P. Austriaca, P. Pallassiana, Abies Doug- 

 lassii, and Cedrus deodara, which, by some, is expected 

 hereafter to rival the larch in national importance. 



Independent of the value of the Abietina for the ex- 

 cellent timber they produce, most of the species, as orna- 

 mental objects alone, are well deserving of culture, no 

 tribe of plants exhibiting greater individual beauty from 

 their earliest age, either in point of symmetry or regu- 

 larity of form, added to which they have the advantage 

 of being evergreen, and in many cases attain a stature 

 loftier than most of our deciduous trees. As ornamental 

 objects, however, they recpiire a treatment very different 

 from that which they ought to receive when grown in 

 mass with a view to timber or profit, as, instead of being 

 planted near to each other or to other trees, and kept 

 in pretty close contact for several years, in order to promote 

 the early decay of the lower branches, whereby a clean 

 trunk, devoid of knots, can alone be ensured, they should, 



