216 FOREST TREES. 
now (1837) twenty-five feet high. A shoot of the 
year 1829, with part of 1828, cut from a tree five years 
old, on M. Vilmorin’s estate at Barras, and sent to Mr. 
Lawson’s museum, measured three feet in length, and 
three and,a-half inches in circumference at the thick- 
est end. In the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges, this 
species and its varieties had reached the height of 
from twenty to thirty feet, while the Scotch Pine and 
its varieties were not above twelve feet. In France, 
according to Thouin, P. Laricio grows two-thirds 
faster than the Scotch Pine placed in similar soils 
and situations.” 
Hoopes, in his Book of Evergeens, eulogizes this 
Pine, for ornamental purposes, and remarks that 
although a native of warm climates, it has in his 
neighborhood given entire satisfaction. In northern 
Illinois its hardihood is not well established. I have 
attempted to cultivate imported plants, but they 
were injured more or less every winter, and finally 
perished. Mr. Douglas raises plants from seed, and 
is of opinion that they will prove more hardy than 
those brought across the Atlantic. It will. doubt- 
less, succeed in Kansas, southern Tlinois and Ken- 
tucky; and its rapid growth and valuable timber 
render its cultivation an object where a speedy result 
is desired. 
Sub- Order—Cupressinee. 
CUPRESSUS—CYPRESS., 
Flowers, monecious on different branches, in 
termina] small catkins; sterile catkins composed of 
