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turners, and is also much used for the wainscoting of apart- 

 ments, both on account of its agreeable colour and of the 

 sweet odour which it always retains. From the ease with 

 which it is cut and moulded into form, it is, also, the mate- 

 rial from which the various figures of men, women, animals, 

 &c, are carved by the shepherds of the Swiss and Tyrol 

 Alps during their hours of leisure. Hitherto its cultivation 

 in Britain has been very limited, and mostly confined to a 

 few places in England, and in situations, we believe, not 

 congenial to its nature, and where it is not likely to attain 

 its full developement. To give it a fair trial and test its 

 value it ought to be planted in our mountainous districts, 

 at different elevations and in different exposures, upon the 

 open face of the hill, as well as in the gullies and deep 

 hollows, where the soil is generally the best, and, from the 

 free percolation of moisture, especially congenial to the 

 growth of trees. To an extended cultivation of the Cem- 

 bran Pine, it may, perhaps, be objected, that its growth 

 is too slow to repay the planter for its occupancy ; but 

 when we consider the elevated situations on which it is 

 proposed to try it, the comparatively trifling value of the 

 land in such mountainous districts, and the great advan- 

 tages to be derived from the shelter alone that plantations 

 of this species would afford to flocks depastured on the 

 hills, it seems to be an experiment well worth trying by 

 those who are owners of mountainous property, without 

 taking into account the satisfaction of adding to the in- 

 terest and beauty of their country, as well as the prospect, 

 though it may appear distant, of benefiting their posterity 

 by the growth of a valuable timber in districts otherwise 

 barren and unprofitable. 



For the first four or five years, the growth of the Pimis 

 cembra is slow, the annual shoots seldom exceeding two 



