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and never been quite so worked up by nurserymen 
to the extent that it deserves. 
An answer to these i inquiries may perhaps be found 
in the tale told of its history. Dr. Bunge, a Russian, 
discovered it in 1836. Robert Fortune sent its seeds 
here in 1846, and their results to-day may be prac- 
tically computed at nil, or next to nil. Since when, 
Wilson has walked into a goodly company of them 
in Central China, and some day perhaps, at too great 
a distance of time for most of us, our children and 
grandchildren may be gladdened by a sight that it 
was not our lot to see. 
One more word upon them: the Bungeana and 
Gerardiana have been called at times ‘‘ the Lace 
Bark Pine,’’ and Elwes and Henry have entered an 
objection to this designation on the score of ‘inappro- 
‘priateness. It would be only the masterful mind 
of a bold man who would dare gainsay what this 
formidable duet of able men have laid down, and in 
this case, if ‘anyone were to try it on, his position 
would be particularly untenable. It is a name that 
at best can convey but an indistinct idea of appear- 
ance to most. There are so many different kinds of 
laces of so many different hues, ranging in colour 
from dull ivory to alabaster white. There are so 
many different kinds of laces—we would plaintively 
plead—from so many different countries and places, 
from Flanders,, France, Alencon, Ireland, etc., and 
so few tree students who possess the remotest dens 
of their differences. We are grateful that Elwes 
and Henry have protested against ‘the inappropri- 
ateness of the name, and afforded. us protection from 
the confusion that such a misnomer might have 
created in our more inerudite ranks. 
P. GeERARDIANA.—This is another of those Pines that 
a rare sight of is all you can hope to obtain.” It has 
