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height of one hundred and fifty feet. It is sometimes called 

 the Himalayan Weeping fir. Take it all in all, it has been the 

 greatest favorite, and the most successful of all the new coni- 

 fers — having a charmingly graceful habit, and soft, pretty glau- 

 cous foliage. 



P. filifolia (Thread-leaved pine).^CBrtainly this and P. 



■patula are the most delicate and graceful of pines, 



^^''"" „^. . exquisite for pot-culture, but too tender for any 



p. BtinnerL -i r ' ci i 



portion of this country, except the extreme oouth. 

 It is a native of Guatemala, growing there to the height of 

 forty to sixty feet, and resembling very much our Georgia pine 

 (P. palustris), with its long, beautiful, thready leaves, twelve to 

 fourteen inches in length. 



P. Jlexilis (Contorted-branched pine). — This curious tree 

 was found by Mr. Jeifery, at an elevation of nine thousand 

 feet, and even fourteen thousand, in the neighborhood of 

 Eraser's river, where it makes a small tree of forty feet high, 

 with a peculiarly flattened head ; and on the highest portion of 

 the mountain, where it degenerates into a shrub of only three 

 •feet high, it becomes so compact that a person may walk on 

 the top of it. It has not been introduced here yet, and hardly 

 into England ; but from its being found so near the snow-line, 

 we should suppose it might prove hardy. \ 



P. Fremontiana (Colonel Fremont's pine).— This pine was 



^™j discovered by Col. Fremont, during his explor- 



p. monophyiia. ing expedition, when crossing the Sierra Nevada, 



■ ^'^"'"^ • growing on both sides, extending over the top 

 of that great, snowy chain. It does not reach a size of over 

 twenty feet, is very spreading in its habits, and will probably 

 prove perfectly hardy in this country, since Col. Fremont often 

 found the thermometer at two degrees below zero, at night, and 

 four feet of snow where the tree grew. The seeds are eatable, 

 and are quite an article of commerce with the Indians, in the 

 season, under name of Nut pine. 



P. Gerardiana (Gerard's pine). — A slow-growing but vigor- 

 ous variety from the mountain of Kunawar, in 

 P. Neoza. India, reaching the height of fifty feet, and 



p. Anckiandu-. forming a close, compact head ; the leaves of 

 these are stiflF, and of a bluish green. We had this 



