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of that tufted or massive richness which is seen in the 

 Common Pine, the Pinaster, and other two-leaved species ; 

 hence, as an ornamental tree, it is greatly inferior to many 

 of its congeners ; and, possessing no picturesque beauty in 

 itself, it is only desirable where the direct effect of con- 

 trast is required, as where its smooth and polished grey- 

 green bark is opposed to the rougher and more richly-co- 

 loured trunks of the Pinus sylvestris, or its light and scanty 

 foliage relieves the heavier masses of surrounding trees. 



Specifically, it is distinguished by having the leaves in 

 fives, with little or no surrounding sheath at their base, 

 slender, from three to three and a half inches long, of a 

 light bluish green, with longitudinal silver lines, scabrous, 

 and finely serrated on the margin. In summer they hang 

 free and loose, but in winter, and during frost, they con- 

 tract and lie close to the branches. The buds are ovate, 

 pointed, and partially covered with resin. The male cat- 

 kins are short and elliptic, on long footstalks, their colour 

 a pale purple mixed with yellow. The crest of the an- 

 thers is small and composed of two short erect bristles. 

 The cones are of an ovate cylindrical shape, erect when 

 young, but as they reach maturity become pendulous ; 

 they are from four to six inches long, slightly curved, and 

 composed of smooth scales rounded at the base, with the 

 apex thickened and partly covered with white resin. The 

 seeds ripen and are shed from the cones in the October 

 of the second year. 



There is another species belonging to the five-leaved 

 section, to which it is desirable to direct the attention of 

 planters, particularly of those who possess extensive tracts of 

 land of a hilly or mountainous description, this is the Pinus 

 cembra, Linn., Cembran Pine, a tree of the hardiest con- 

 stitution, naturally growing in the Alpine regions of many 



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