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not so long, and not so straight as that of the Haguenau, and it stands 

 more erect against the branches. 



" It is, on the contrary, longer and narrower than are those of 

 the Geneva variety. 



" The cone is smaller and shorter than that of some others, more 

 particularly than that of the Geneva pine and some of its analogies j 

 it is generally grey, and sometimes, but rarely, of a somewhat purplish 

 hue. 



" The bud or young shoot varies in hue from yellowish to reddish- 

 it is smaller and less resinous than it is in the greater part of the 

 lots of the varieties having horizontal branches ; the colour of the 

 male catkin varies from a yellowish hue to that of a pale red." 



Of Riga pines, raised from seed obtained from Riga through M. 

 Helmond, he writes : 



" This is identical, or almost absolutely so, with those just described, 

 with which I could with all propriety have united it, but I mention 

 it apart, because it forms on the grounds separate very marked 

 clumps of trees, of the same origin, but of different years' growth • 

 the proportion of trees with scattered branches, or even horizontal 

 ones, is much greater than in those just described. I shall have 

 occasion to revert to this fact of which the Russian series of pines 

 presents other examples." 



In 1838 he writes : " M. Wagner, nurseryman and seedsman in 

 Riga, sent to me some cones produced in four of the provinces of Russia 

 known to furnish beautiful pine masts. Although the trees raised from 

 them are few in number and younger by ten or fifteen years than 

 my older Russian pines, I consider that I ought to classify them, 

 provisionally at least, according to their actual appearance." And of 

 one of these lots, that of the pine of Witepsk, he says : " By the 

 regularity and the very decided ascending direction of its crowns, and 

 by the tout ensemble of its characteristics, it belongs evidently to the 

 section of the elongated tapering pyramidal varieties ; it will probably 

 prove identical with the Riga pine first described. 



" Intermediate between this class and the second, are the Smolensk 

 pine, the Wilna pine, the Tschernigoff pine, and the Volhynia pine 

 from another province of Russia, Riga pines raised from seeds collected 

 at Barres from trees raised from the first mentioned parcels of seeds 

 received from Russia, and a pine tree raised from the seed of a 

 pyramidal tree at Verrieres, near Paris, which, from its port or 

 bearing, might be inoluded in the first seotion, and from its bark in 

 the second." 



