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tioA of these trees at Brest, in the north of France, a climate very 

 much lite our own. The soil is a light sandy loam, poor and thin. 

 Yet the trees, fully exposed, or sheltered only by a smaU belt of 

 pines, have proved per- 

 fectly hardy, resisting 

 without injury, even the 

 rigorous winter of 1829- 

 30, when the thermome- 

 ter was several degrees 

 below zero of Fahren- 

 heit. " The largest now 

 measures about twenty 

 feet in height. Its cir- 

 cles or tiers of branches 

 are five in number, dis- 

 posed at perfectly equal 

 distances, and closely re- 

 sembling, in effect, a 

 magnificent pyramid. — 

 The stem, the branches, 

 and their shoots, are all 



completely clothed with rig. 6.— The ChUI Pine, or Arauoaaia-Tree. 



lisaves of a fine deep green ; these leaves are regtilarly and symmet- 

 rically disposed, and are remarkable in their being bent backwards 

 at their extremities, ^ving the effect, as well as the form, of the 

 antique girandole." ' 



Mr. Buist, the •well known Philadelphia nurseryman, who' has 

 already distributed agood many specimens of this tree in the tJnited 

 States, informed us last season, that it is entirely hardy in Philadel- 

 phia ; and our correspondent, Dr; Valk, of Flushing, who has in his 

 garden a specimen three feet high, writes us thait it has borne the 

 past winter without protection, and apparently Uninjured. 



We may therefore reasonably hope that this unique Sbuth 

 American ti^e, of most singular foliage, strikiiig symmeitry^' and gi- 

 gantic eatable fruit, will also take itS place in our ornamental plan- 

 tations, along with the cedar of Lebanon and the Deodar' cedar, 

 two of the grandest trees of the Asian world. 



