520 LANDSCAPE GAEDENING. 



all the terminal buds were eaten off by sheep ; and though the trees 

 might have stood climate alone, yet they were unable to resist 

 both climate and sheep, and they consequently perished. It has 

 rugged, stiff leaves, ten or twelve inches long, and becomes a very 

 striking tree, eighty to one hundred feet high ; from the moun- 

 tains of Santa Lucia, in California, at an elevation of three or 

 four thousand feet. 



P. macrophylla (the Long-leaved Mexican). — An uncom- 

 Syn. monly tine variety, which we lost in the winter of 



r Leroyi. 1855, in a very exposed situation, though we are 

 not prepared'to say it would have stood better in a protected 

 cne. It is a very striking tree, from one of the highest moun- 

 tains of Mexico, growing twenty to thirty feet high, with a fine, 

 ample foliage, fifteen inches long. It is almost too stout and 

 coarse for pot-culture, but would be very ornamental at the. 

 South, where it would grow perfectly well. 



P. maritima (the Maritime pine). — This tree, so called and 

 so sold in our nurseries, is simply a nurseryman's name, there 

 really being no such tree. It is very curious, but nevertheless 

 true, that the greatest confusion prevails, both in the English 

 and Freacli nurseries, about this variety. In England, it is 

 confounded often with P. pinaster, Halepensis, and Laricio ; 

 and in France, with Pallasiana, Pithyusa (Halepensis), Lari- 

 cio, und Pjrenaica, and made synonymous with each ; and in 

 this country, it seems to represent any thing which is un- 

 known. 



The specimens we have seen in our neighborhood as Mariti- 

 ma, are probably Calabrica — a sub-vai-iety of Laricio — and, we 

 think, most Maritimas in our nurseries are Laricio or Pinaster. 

 Representing, as it does, so many different trees, it is difficult 

 to get any reputation about it which is to be depended on. In 

 Boston, it is returned to us as tender, from which we assume 

 that the variety there may be Picaster, which is sometimes 

 tender here ; while at Rochester, it is reported hardy, and may 

 be Calabrica, or one of the hardjr synonyms. At Washington, 

 the variety known as Maritima does well, and also at Eliza- 

 bethtown ; but what these trees really are at these two places, 

 we have no means of knowing, except that they are not Mari- 

 timas. 



