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A MANUAL Ofl TflE CONlMRJJ. 



tlie plains, and on the banks of the rivers, in Oregon and Washington 

 territory. The wood of Pinus 'monticola is white, fine grained, strong, 

 and durable.* 



Pinus parviflora. — A medium-sized or low tree, of compact habit, 

 with a bluntly pyramidal head, and clothed with dense short foliage. 

 The branches are approximate, either horizontal or slightly ascending 



at the extremities, 

 V, and furnished with 

 I numerous short, tufted 

 branchlets. The leaves 

 are from 1 to 1 J inch 

 long, crowded, rigid, 

 slightly twisted, light 

 green on the outer 

 or rounded side, and 

 quite glaucous or sil- 

 very on the inner or 

 flattened sides. The 

 cones are ovate- 

 elliptic, from 2i' to 

 3^ inches long, com- 

 posed of about twenty 

 coriaceous broadly 

 wedge-shaped scales. 

 Habitat. — Japan. 



Fig. 



!. — Cone and leaves of Pinus parviflora. (From the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



Introduced in 1861 by Mr. J. G. Veitch. 



Pinus parviflora, according to Siebold, although found cultivated all 

 over Japan, is a native exclusively of the northern islands, extending 

 from about latitude 35° E". to the Kurilo islands. The above 

 description applies only to the cultivated P. parviflora, and, from which, 

 all the older plants in British gardens are derived. In its wild state, 

 in the island of Jesso, it attains a larger size than the cultivated 

 form ; the leaves are also longer, and of a deeper green ; the cones 

 too, are longer, with the scales less crumpled at their edges. 



Pinus parviflora is one of the most distinct of the Cembra Pines, and 

 owing to its small size, well-furnished trunk, and dense foliage, which 

 is persistent three years, it is one of the best of the tribe that can 

 be selected for the lawn and ■ shrubbery ; it prefers a moist loamy 



* Gardeners' Chronicle, 1878, ix., p. 52. 



