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The cones are about three inches long and two and a 

 quarter broad, the scales nearly as wide as long ; the seeds 

 are large, being about two-thirds the size of those of the 

 nut Pine, Pinus pinea, and destitute of wings. They 

 contain a sweet oily kernel, grateful to the taste, and 

 used in some parts as food. An excellent oil, fit when 

 fresh for the table, or to burn in lamps, is expressed from 

 them in the Tyrol ; and in Siberia, when the crop is abun- 

 dant, they are said to form almost the sole winter food 

 of the peasantry. When sown they lie long in the ground 

 before they vegetate, the young plants not appearing till 

 the spring of the second year. 



To this section, also, belongs the Pinus excelsa, Wallick, 

 Bhotan Pine, a native of the mountains of Nepaul, also 

 Pinus .Lambertiana, first discovered by Douglass, near the 

 head-waters of the Multonal river, to the west of the 

 range of the rocky mountains. Both of these species seem 

 of hardy temperament, and are likely to prove important 

 additions to our ornamental coniferse. 



