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ing, it is not a handsome tree, the interval between the tiers of 

 branches being so wide and the foliage so coarse and sparse, 

 as to give it a thin and naked look ; besides which, it has 

 an ugly habit of working the crown of the root out of ground, 

 so as to give the tree the appearance of insecurity. Our tree, 

 though eighteen feet high, and grown from seed where it stands, 

 still requires, or seems to require, support. It is, of course, 

 hardy all over the United States — at least, we doubt if any 

 cold will affect it, though it might suffer from sun in the ex- 

 treme South. 



P. PallasiaiM Taurica (Taurian pine.) — A large tree, seventy 

 to eighty feet high, found as yet only in the Crimea and along 

 the coast of the Black Sea. We have specimens which have 

 been out several years without protection ; perfectly hardy, 

 though not very distinctive, as it resembles exceedingly our 

 • White pine. 



P- pumilis (the Mountain pine.) — A remarkably stiff, un- 

 graceful dwarf, resembling the Scotch fir — in 

 Syn. ° . . 



P. Tartarian, some favorable situations, becoming a tree thirty 



*°" feet high, but generally only a low, straggling, 



slow-growing bush. It is very common on the Alps and the 

 Carpathian Mountains ; perfectly hardy. 



P. pinea (Italian Stone pine). — No one, we think, who has 

 Syi'- ever been to Rome, will have forgotten the 



p" domestioa Colonna pine, which, together with St. Peter's, 

 P. arctica, &o. divided one's enthusiasm, at the first sight of the 

 eternal city. This superb object, rising abruptly from the midst 

 of the Colonna gardens, is so much associated in our early recol- 

 lections, with all views of Rome, that now it is gone,* it would 

 really seem as if we had lost an old friend. It is the great 

 tree of Claude, and all the old masters, and no Italian garden 

 would seem quite perfect without it. It is generally, we think, 

 too tender for this climate, though suited well to the South. 

 We have tried many times to acclimatize it; but though it 

 may struggle on for a few years, yet it never would form, pro- 

 Dably, the picturesque tree, so valuable for the composition of 

 certain landscape effects. 



* Blown down in 1851. 



