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mids, whose summits consist of a 

 smaller pyramid of a greyish co- / 

 lour, hard and sharp-pointed. 

 The seeds, a little more than a 

 quarter of an inch long, are at- 

 tached to a large membranous 

 wing, which is upwards of an 

 inch in length, and the cotyle- 

 dons of the seedling are seven 

 or eight in number. 



Many fine examples of the Pin- 

 aster are to be met with in vari- 

 ous parts of England ; in the gardens of Fulham palace 

 there is one upwards of eighty feet high, with a trunk 

 more than twelve feet in circumference ; at Sion House, 

 Loudon mentions several above sixty feet high. 



In Hampshire, Cornwall, and Norfolk, it has been planted 

 extensively, and in all these counties there are Pinasters of 

 fine growth and large dimensions. In Northumberland, we 

 recollect a very fine and highly ornamental tree which grew 

 in the neighbourhood of Belford, but which fell a sacrifice 

 to the axe, being mistaken for an ancient individual of the 

 common species. At Twizell, besides the tree blown down 

 by the hurricane of January, 183.9, there are now several, 

 about fourteen years planted, upwards of twenty feet high ; 

 and at Howick, the seat of Earl Grey, are several thriving 

 trees of this species. 



Several varieties of the Pinaster are enumerated by 

 Loudon, amongst which the Pinus P. Lemonianus* is the 

 most remarkable ; for, although similar in foliage to the 

 species, it differs in its general habit and mode of growth. 



* For a further account of this variety, our readers are referred to a paper by 

 Sir Charles Lemon, published in the " Horticultural Transactions." 



