522 LANDSCAPE GAKDENING. 



mountains, it has not the appearance of being hardy, and we 

 have not yet attempted to acclimatize it— having but two plants, 

 which are quite beautiful epough for pot-culture to satisfy any- 

 body. It would unquestionably grow at the South. "We have 

 no reports about it, and know but one other specimen in the 

 country, which is at Wellesley, near Boston, grown, like ours, 

 in a pot. There are two other varieties, P.patula stricta (more 

 erect), and P. patula macrocarpa (much larger and tallerj ; 

 neither, we think, in this country. 



P. pinaster (Star or Cluster pine.) — ^This fine tree, which, 



when first introduced, and before thoroughly 



*'"■-- , . tested, promised to be the most artistic of pines 



P. maritima. (at least of available pines) — doing for our 



^' '^nt""' iandscape what P. pinea (the Stone pine) did 



soTenotiieis. for Claude in the Italian Landscape — has, in 

 our latitude, proved itself a little questiona- 

 ble. It will certainly stand uninjured our ordinary winters ; 

 but such uncommon ones as those of 1855-6, when, with us, 

 the mercury sank to twenty degrees below zero, destroyed, at 

 Wodenethe, specimens eighteen and twenty feet high, and this 

 seems the experience of our returns. 



It is a most admirable tree for planting near the sea-shore, 



where it thrives wherever the climate will permit, and is to be 



found all along the Cornish road, bordering the Mediterranean, in 



Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Japan, New Holland. From 



the facility with which it flourishes near the sea, it received its 



synonym of maritima. No doubt P. pinaster Hamiltonii, 



Lemoniana, minor variegata, are varieties. 



, P. ponderosa (the Heavy-wooded pine.) — The hardiest, we 



should say, of all pines, not excepting our na- 



^S""- tive White pine, and the fastest grower. We have 



P. Ciaigcana. . ^ .' •' ° 



P. Beardsioyi. ^ specimen, Sixteen to eighteen feet high, raised 

 from seed in less than seven years. This va- 

 riety is gigantic in every sense of the word ; the new shoots 

 are two or three times as thick as those of our White pine, and 

 same with the buds. The annual leading shoots exceed a 

 yard. It is from the Northwest coast of America and Califor- 

 nia, where it grows one hundred feet high Although a strik- 



