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America and Mexico, and cultivated for ornament and shade in 
Southern California, Australia, and other warm dry climates; will 
bear droughts and intense summer heat of Central Australia better 
than almost any introduced plants. §. Terebinthifolia, from Brazil, 
form fine promenade trees in Victoria, Algeria, and Tunis, having 
a better habit and richer foliage than the preceding. 
Pirrosporum, of which there are several varieties, but they are 
all suitable for shade-lines when celerity of growth is not an object. 
They are perennial; always look clean. The flowers are fragrant 
and yield a volatile oil on distillation. The trees are always clean 
looking; they stand clipping well. 
THE CLUSTER Ping (P. maritina, De Candolle, P. Pinaster, 
Solander).—For ease of rearing and rapidity of growth, one of the 
most important of all pines. Trees about 15 years old can be cut 
for sawing into fruit cases. Planted closely at a distance of 8 to 10 
feet apart to ensure the growth of a straight stem with few latent 
branches and wood knots. 
This pine has been much used for consolidating the sandy coast 
along the shore opening on the Bay of Biscay. The mature trees 
are then regularly tapped for turpentine before they are felled and 
the timber utilised. This pine, which does well on sandy stretches, 
is more valued by foresters than is the P, insignis, also a valuable 
tree. 
PomEcRANATE (Punica granatum, Linné).—North Africa and 
South-Western Asia; widely cultivated for its showy flowers and 
fruit; much overlooked regarding its value as a hedge plant; will 
.grow freely from cuttings. Purposely cultivated in Algeria for 
walking sticks. Passed with very few other plants through years 
of drought in Central Australia. The best varieties are propagated 
by grafting; among these there is a practically seedless variety 
known to Indian cultivators. 
Privet (Ligustrum Japonicum, Thunberg).—The Japan Privet, 
a shrub evergreen or nearly so, promising to become a valuable 
hedge plant. Grows readily from cuttings, like the ordinary Euro- 
pean privet, Ligustrum vulgare (Linné). Both will grow under 
trees, where scarcely anything else would live. 
Quince (Pyrus Cydonia, Linné, and Cydonia Vulgaris, Per- 
soon).—The Caspian Sea, one of the hardiest of orchard trees, and 
serves-a great many useful ends. Raised hy euttings or by layers 
which strike root freely. Frequently used as a stock for other 
trees. Very little pruning is required; extensively used as a hedge 
or screen. 
Tacassste (Cytisus proliferus, Linné fil.)—Canary Tsland. A 
fodder shrub for light dry svil; finally tall, rather intolerant to 
frost and drought. Valuable also for apiarists. In some places it 
